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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-20 12:57:47 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-20 12:57:47 (GMT) |
| commit | 440f2fff14f549f1deb8c9d1a9f52444acb1aad1 (patch) | |
| tree | b562171c685f1f52e6750a3e9101c8d9608c82e0 /Doc/library | |
| parent | d5e6cf2b152061cdae0164cef2382086c7638bbc (diff) | |
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#799369: document possible sys.platform values.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 6b88d61..c6fe2fa 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -507,9 +507,26 @@ always available. .. data:: platform - This string contains a platform identifier, e.g. ``'sunos5'`` or ``'linux1'``. - This can be used to append platform-specific components to ``path``, for - instance. + This string contains a platform identifier that can be used to append + platform-specific components to :data:`sys.path`, for instance. + + For Unix systems, 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 ``'linux2'``, *at the time when Python was built*. + For other systems, the values are: + + ================ =========================== + System :data:`platform` value + ================ =========================== + Windows ``'win32'`` + Windows/Cygwin ``'cygwin'`` + MacOS X ``'darwin'`` + MacOS 9 ``'mac'`` + OS/2 ``'os2'`` + OS/2 EMX ``'os2emx'`` + RiscOS ``'riscos'`` + AtheOS ``'atheos'`` + ================ =========================== .. data:: prefix |