I have one data point, perhaps relevant.
In the static type checking world we only care about coarse distinctions.
PEP 484 states that type checkers should understand sys.platform. It does
not require anything else. In practice, this is used almost exclusively to
check for 'win32', since lots of A
On 16Jun2019 2354, Michael wrote:
CONCERN: How to organize platform dependent blocks of code
POLICY/RECOMMENDATION: (today) seems to be: arbitrary, although
sys.platform, seems to be the favorite.
* I, as 'python-consumer' was very surprised when I learned that
sys.platform is "set" when Python
