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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-08-20 21:39:26 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-08-20 21:39:26 (GMT)
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Close #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux' on Linux
On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending on the Linux version used to build Python.
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Library
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+- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
+ anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
+ on the Linux version used to build Python.
+
- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
could appear on BufferedRandom streams.