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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/util.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/util.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py index fdcf6fa..b8a6911 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/util.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py @@ -16,21 +16,17 @@ from distutils import log from distutils.errors import DistutilsByteCompileError def get_platform (): - """Return a string that identifies the current platform. This is used - mainly to distinguish platform-specific build directories and - platform-specific built distributions. Typically includes the OS name - and version and the architecture (as supplied by 'os.uname()'), - although the exact information included depends on the OS; eg. for IRIX - the architecture isn't particularly important (IRIX only runs on SGI - hardware), but for Linux the kernel version isn't particularly - important. + """Return a string that identifies the current platform. This is used mainly to + distinguish platform-specific build directories and platform-specific built + distributions. Typically includes the OS name and version and the + architecture (as supplied by 'os.uname()'), although the exact information + included depends on the OS; eg. on Linux, the kernel version isn't + particularly important. Examples of returned values: linux-i586 linux-alpha (?) solaris-2.6-sun4u - irix-5.3 - irix64-6.2 Windows will return one of: win-amd64 (64bit Windows on AMD64 (aka x86_64, Intel64, EM64T, etc) @@ -38,6 +34,7 @@ def get_platform (): win32 (all others - specifically, sys.platform is returned) For other non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns 'sys.platform'. + """ if os.name == 'nt': # sniff sys.version for architecture. @@ -87,8 +84,6 @@ def get_platform (): bitness = {2147483647:"32bit", 9223372036854775807:"64bit"} machine += ".%s" % bitness[sys.maxsize] # fall through to standard osname-release-machine representation - elif osname[:4] == "irix": # could be "irix64"! - return "%s-%s" % (osname, release) elif osname[:3] == "aix": return "%s-%s.%s" % (osname, version, release) elif osname[:6] == "cygwin": |