Re: [Python-Dev] platform management

2008-03-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Looking at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.html, I find the following: > > name > > The name of the operating system dependent module imported. The > following names have currently been registered: 'posix', 'nt', 'mac', > 'os2', 'ce', 'java', 'riscos'. > > This implies tha

Re: [Python-Dev] platform management

2008-03-20 Thread Bill Janssen
Looking at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.html, I find the following: name The name of the operating system dependent module imported. The following names have currently been registered: 'posix', 'nt', 'mac', 'os2', 'ce', 'java', 'riscos'. This implies that there's a regist

Re: [Python-Dev] platform management

2008-03-19 Thread Guido van Rossum
Great idea! Sounds like a PEP (informational, probably) would be good idea. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think this is bike-shedding. > > The debate about "AMD64" vs. "amd64" vs. "x86_64" reminded me that > I've been bit more and more frequen

[Python-Dev] platform management

2008-03-18 Thread Bill Janssen
I don't think this is bike-shedding. The debate about "AMD64" vs. "amd64" vs. "x86_64" reminded me that I've been bit more and more frequently by bits of platform-specific knowledge scattered around the standard library. The latest is the code in distutils.unixccompiler that tries to figure out w