Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

[Andi Kleen]

> A notable one is that Python now reports "linux3" from sys.platform();
> which in turn can break things that were checking sys.platform() ==
> "linux2".
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564
>
> Seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
> '==' instead of .startswith().

That's a good point. I googled for this pattern in google codesearch
and there are 10+ in the first two pages.

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=lang:^python$%20sys.platform%20linux2&p=1&type=cs

-andi


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