[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

Petr Viktorin added the comment: linux_distribution has beed deprecated for a while and has been removed in GH-6871 (bpo-28167) See https://pypi.org/project/distro for distro detection. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed __

[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

Petr Viktorin added the comment: I understand that's what distro (https://github.com/nir0s/distro) is based on -- but a lot of complexity is required on top of that. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

Andrey Bychkov added the comment: I think, at this moment, the optimal is parsing information from os-release file, because it's contained in majority linux distributions. Also can using 'Lsb_release -a' command, but not all distributions support 'Linux Standard Base'. At final can using at f

[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

Petr Viktorin added the comment: Python's deprecation process takes several years, but linux_distribution is actually nearing the end of it. It is planned to be removed. Your improvement is great, but at this point, it is more similar to adding a new feature to the standard library, than fixi

[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

Andrey Bychkov added the comment: I think that it would be good to update linux_distribution, the discussion has been going on for a long time, but still in some cases the information is not determined correctly. It seems to me that the methods used are not entirely correct. My change more ac

[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

Petr Viktorin added the comment: Oh, and there's a long discussion on the deprecation here: https://bugs.python.org/issue1322 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

Petr Viktorin added the comment: linux_distribution is deprecated since 3.5, so I don't think it makes sense to modify it. (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/platform.html#platform.linux_distribution) Can you use a third-party package instead, e.g. distro? http://distro.readthedocs.io/en/

[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

Andrey Bychkov added the comment: it's patch is not actual. new diff in git pull request! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

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[issue33435] incorrect detection of information of some distributions

New submission from Andrey Bychkov : In some linux distributions, the information about the distribution is incorrectly determined when the linux_distribution() method is called from the platform class. Since the information file os-release becomes a certain standard, I propose first of all to