Dino Viehland <dinov <at> microsoft.com> writes: > > > * get_platform(): Return a string that identifies the current > > platform. (this one is used by site.py for example) > > I wonder if this would make more sense a built-in. Ultimately it seems > like the interpreter implementation knows best about what aspects of > it's underlying platform would require different libraries.
I don't think it makes sense to make a builtin of such a little used, non-performance critical API. If we want to factor out all implementation-specific things, we could add a module dedicated to that (e.g. "_interpreter") and have other modules (os, platform, sysconfig...) draw from that. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
