Op 10-aug-2006, om 10:44 heeft Sybren Stuvel het volgende geschreven: > Michiel Sikma enlightened us with: >> However, in order to populate the list of platforms, I need to know >> which strings sys.platform can return. I haven't found any >> documentation on this, but I guess that I'm not looking in the >> right places! Do any of you know where I can find a list of >> possible return values from sys.platform? I'll settle for a Python >> C source code file, too, if it contains strings. > > I've browsed through the Python source, and I can't find this list. My > best guess is that it's set by ./configure at compile-time, most > likely using the output of 'uname' as source of information. > > Sybren
So there probably isn't even any kind of list that we can find? That's too bad. It's not a big loss to me, but I imagine that it's kind of annoying if you really need to add OS-specific code. Maybe we need to request that documentation for it is implemented in the official Python documentation once and for all. I guess that would require e-mailing a lot of people (like via this list) and asking them which operating system they're on and what their sys.platform tells them? Michiel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
