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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 52026f6..591972e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ always available. This string contains a platform identifier that can be used to append platform-specific components to :data:`sys.path`, for instance. - For Unix systems, except on Linux, this is the lowercased OS name as + For Unix systems, except on Linux and AIX, 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 ``'freebsd8'``, *at the time when Python was built*. Unless you want to test for a specific system @@ -1024,12 +1024,15 @@ always available. # FreeBSD-specific code here... elif sys.platform.startswith('linux'): # Linux-specific code here... + elif sys.platform.startswith('aix'): + # AIX-specific code here... For other systems, the values are: ================ =========================== System ``platform`` value ================ =========================== + AIX ``'aix'`` Linux ``'linux'`` Windows ``'win32'`` Windows/Cygwin ``'cygwin'`` @@ -1042,6 +1045,12 @@ always available. older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to always use the ``startswith`` idiom presented above. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 + On AIX, :attr:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version anymore. + It is always ``'aix'``, instead of ``'aix5'`` or ``'aix7'``. 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 |