> Not that I hope to override the heavy -1, but I don't agree with the second > point. It embodies a huge amount of knowledge that is needed to write > portable code. As such, IMO, it _does_ belong in the standard library. How > is it different in its nature from sys.platform, which is only a much weaker > version of the same concept? A more subtle way of stating my opinion could be: if we were to do something in the standard distribution about the problems that this is addressing, I think we would do it in a much more direct fashion, e.g. by making the appropriate enquiry functions directly accessible. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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