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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/whatsnew | |
| 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').
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index aa75bee..bf28e5f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -700,6 +700,11 @@ Changes in Python behavior raised when getting the attribute from the type dictionary are no longer ignored. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`35459`.) +* On AIX, :attr:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version anymore. + It is always ``'aix'``, instead of ``'aix3'`` .. ``'aix7'``. Since + older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to + always use the ``sys.platform.startswith('aix')``. + (Contributed by M. Felt in :issue:`36588`.) Changes in the Python API ------------------------- |