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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2011-09-04 06:42:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2011-09-04 06:42:26 (GMT) |
| commit | fbd1e041af2057065339bc643a00a55682427aa7 (patch) | |
| tree | 04ed21f68370a28c0608c2a0925ac18feaa28971 /Doc/library/sys.rst | |
| parent | fd164c207f188e952125a0ce21a1fdec2b78170d (diff) | |
| parent | 06ee0209614ea0d1a0801b673f1c5ee83b9ded5a (diff) | |
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Merge with 3.2.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index d2986e4..acdde6d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -710,6 +710,8 @@ always available. if sys.platform.startswith('freebsd'): # FreeBSD-specific code here... + elif sys.platform.startswith('linux'): + # Linux-specific code here... For other systems, the values are: @@ -726,7 +728,9 @@ always available. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 On Linux, :attr:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version anymore. - It is always ``'linux'``, instead of ``'linux2'`` or ``'linux3'``. + It is always ``'linux'``, instead of ``'linux2'`` or ``'linux3'``. 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 @@ -735,6 +739,7 @@ always available. The :mod:`platform` module provides detailed checks for the system's identity. + .. data:: prefix A string giving the site-specific directory prefix where the platform |