On 1 August 2014 02:54, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > I've no idea what you mean by "userland" in your suggestions above or below, > but doesn't the Android environment qualify as a (multi-versioned) platform > independently of its host OS? Seems I've read about an Android > reimplementation for Windows, for example. As long as all the services > expected by Android are faithfully produced, the host OS may be irrelevant > to an Android application... in which case, I would think/propose/suggest > the platform name should change from win32 or linux to Android (and the > Android version be reflected in version parts).
Alternatively, if having sys.platform be "linux" makes portability easier because code that does a platform check generally gets the right answer if Android reports as "linux", then why not make sys.linux_distribution report "android"? To put it briefly, either android is the platform, or android is a specific distribution of the linux platform. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
