[issue8160] platform.platform() throws exception on modified debian distribution

Brian Curtin added the comment: Duplicate of #7773 which was fixed with r77735. -- nosy: +brian.curtin resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue8160] platform.platform() throws exception on modified debian distribution

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[issue8160] platform.platform() throws exception on modified debian distribution

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[issue8160] platform.platform() throws exception on modified debian distribution

New submission from tejas : I am calling platform.linux_distribution() and platform.platform() on a modified Debian distribution with Python 2.6. FWIW the file /etc/debian_version exists on this machine, but is empty. On calling platform.platform(), it seems to try to read the linux version fro