On august 7th, 1998, Guido committed https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d89fa0c5761254c970af72e5abcea420fd2 3e893 to python, adding the quit() and exit() built-ins. He decided to determine the platform python was running on by checking os.sep. I don't understand the rationale behind this choice in 1998, but I assume that there was one.
It's 2017. We have sys.platform, and the standard library is tested against everything that vanilla cpython (unpatched by a vendor) will ever put in cpython. Is there any reason not to change os.sep == '\\' to sys.platform == 'win32' in 2017? _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
