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| author | Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2009-02-17 12:48:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2009-02-17 12:48:19 (GMT) |
| commit | 1d0b5cc6dcbabc217242ca5e141c900200ad4c26 (patch) | |
| tree | da02f008d16bf509c3dcaa10e20789b22aa6b5ea | |
| parent | 6290178fc97e86cb5aff3cb279a8ee77d57311e5 (diff) | |
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Clarify the deprecation of platform.dist().
Add versionadded tags.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/platform.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst index 3c98a1e..cd90c38 100644 --- a/Doc/library/platform.rst +++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst @@ -234,7 +234,15 @@ Unix Platforms .. function:: dist(distname='', version='', id='', supported_dists=('SuSE','debian','redhat','mandrake',...)) - This is another name for :func:`linux_distribution`. + This is an old version of the functionality now provided by + :func:`linux_distribution`. For new code, please use the + :func:`linux_distribution`. + + The only difference between the two is that ``dist()`` always + returns the short name of the distribution taken from the + ``supported_dists`` parameter. + + .. deprecated:: 2.6 .. function:: linux_distribution(distname='', version='', id='', supported_dists=('SuSE','debian','redhat','mandrake',...), full_distribution_name=1) @@ -252,6 +260,8 @@ Unix Platforms parameters. ``id`` is the item in parentheses after the version number. It is usually the version codename. + .. versionadded:: 2.6 + .. function:: libc_ver(executable=sys.executable, lib='', version='', chunksize=2048) Tries to determine the libc version against which the file executable (defaults |