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| author | Michael Felt <aixtools@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-04-12 14:15:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> | 2019-04-12 14:15:32 (GMT) |
| commit | 9d949f7796da612f1b588d18c6f041376992a9fc (patch) | |
| tree | 63decb39986d71d9f431cf17d8806e511126b7a2 /Doc/library/sys.rst | |
| parent | 9b8314cfe29ca532fc335277f6c36b72e6132922 (diff) | |
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bpo-36588: On AIX, remove major version from sys.platform (GH-12787)
On AIX, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version anymore.
Always return 'aix', instead of 'aix3' .. 'aix7'. Since
older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to
always use sys.platform.startswith('aix').
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/sys.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sys.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 52026f6..591972e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ always available. This string contains a platform identifier that can be used to append platform-specific components to :data:`sys.path`, for instance. - For Unix systems, except on Linux, this is the lowercased OS name as + For Unix systems, except on Linux and AIX, this is the lowercased OS name as returned by ``uname -s`` with the first part of the version as returned by ``uname -r`` appended, e.g. ``'sunos5'`` or ``'freebsd8'``, *at the time when Python was built*. Unless you want to test for a specific system @@ -1024,12 +1024,15 @@ always available. # FreeBSD-specific code here... elif sys.platform.startswith('linux'): # Linux-specific code here... + elif sys.platform.startswith('aix'): + # AIX-specific code here... For other systems, the values are: ================ =========================== System ``platform`` value ================ =========================== + AIX ``'aix'`` Linux ``'linux'`` Windows ``'win32'`` Windows/Cygwin ``'cygwin'`` @@ -1042,6 +1045,12 @@ always available. older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to always use the ``startswith`` idiom presented above. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 + On AIX, :attr:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version anymore. + It is always ``'aix'``, instead of ``'aix5'`` or ``'aix7'``. Since + older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to + always use the ``startswith`` idiom presented above. + .. seealso:: :attr:`os.name` has a coarser granularity. :func:`os.uname` gives |