Issue #1322: platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution() functions are now deprecated.

Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_platform.py b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
index ededbdb..f4ce36d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_platform.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
@@ -311,10 +311,24 @@ class PlatformTest(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(version, '19')
             self.assertEqual(distid, 'Schr\xf6dinger\u2019s Cat')
 
-def test_main():
-    support.run_unittest(
-        PlatformTest
-    )
+
+class DeprecationTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_dist_deprecation(self):
+        with self.assertWarns(PendingDeprecationWarning) as cm:
+            platform.dist()
+        self.assertEqual(str(cm.warning),
+                         'dist() and linux_distribution() functions are '
+                         'deprecated in Python 3.5 and will be removed in '
+                         'Python 3.7')
+
+    def test_linux_distribution_deprecation(self):
+        with self.assertWarns(PendingDeprecationWarning) as cm:
+            platform.linux_distribution()
+        self.assertEqual(str(cm.warning),
+                         'dist() and linux_distribution() functions are '
+                         'deprecated in Python 3.5 and will be removed in '
+                         'Python 3.7')
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    test_main()
+    unittest.main()