[issue24399] Backports Arch Linux support for platform.linux_distribution()

2015-06-06 Thread Berker Peksag
Berker Peksag added the comment: Thanks for the report. This is a duplicate of issue 20454. -- nosy: +berker.peksag resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> platform.linux_distribution() returns empty value on Archlinux and python 2.7 ___

[issue24399] Backports Arch Linux support for platform.linux_distribution()

2015-06-06 Thread Nathan Ringo
New submission from Nathan Ringo: On Arch Linux, running `python2 -c "import platform; print platform.linux_distribution()"' Before patch: ('', '', '') After patch: ('arch', 'Arch', 'Linux') This matches the Python 3 behavior: `python3 -c "import platform; print(platform.linux_distribution())"