[issue24063] Support Mageia and Arch Linux in the platform module

Irit Katriel added the comment: Python 2.7 is no longer being updated. -- nosy: +iritkatriel resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue24063] Support Mageia and Arch Linux in the platform module

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Just to add some more context the function platform.linux_distribution() was removed in Python 3 with 8b94b41ab7b12f745dea744e8940631318816935. Refer https://bugs.python.org/issue28167 for more discussion. https://pypi.org/project/distro/ is the re

[issue24063] Support Mageia and Arch Linux in the platform module

New submission from Rémi Verschelde: Support for Mageia and Arch Linux was added in the platform module for Python 3.x [1, 2], but the fix was not backported to the 2.7.x branch. It would be nice to see these fixes cherry-picked for the incoming 2.7.10 release. [1] https://hg.python.org/cpyth