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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/util.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/util.py | 23 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py index 8650d45..fbd3a67 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/util.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py @@ -16,10 +16,27 @@ from distutils.version import LooseVersion from distutils.errors import DistutilsByteCompileError _sysconfig = __import__('sysconfig') +_PLATFORM = None -# kept for backward compatibility -# since this API was relocated -get_platform = _sysconfig.get_platform +def get_platform(): + """Return a string that identifies the current platform. + + By default, will return the value returned by sysconfig.get_platform(), + but it can be changed by calling set_platform(). + """ + global _PLATFORM + if _PLATFORM is None: + _PLATFORM = _sysconfig.get_platform() + return _PLATFORM + +def set_platform(identifier): + """Sets the platform string identifier returned by get_platform(). + + Note that this change doesn't impact the value returned by + sysconfig.get_platform() and is local to Distutils + """ + global _PLATFORM + _PLATFORM = identifier def convert_path(pathname): """Return 'pathname' as a name that will work on the native filesystem. |