Re: uname -s question

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:21:10PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:01:38PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>> >Does anyone use the information, that starts with the "_" in "uname -s"?
>> >For example on NT 4.0, I'm referring to the "_NT-4.0".
>> [snip]
>> 
>> I don't see why this is necessary.  It comes up repeatedly and the
>> extremely simple solution is to match on CYGWIN*.  Many other systems
>> use this convention.  For instance, look at gdb's configure.in or
>> configure.tgt script.  There is a 'hpux*' and a 'solaris*'.
>
>A Python developer was proposing changing sys.platform under Cygwin to
>return
>
>    cygwin
>
>instead of the current value of
>
>    cygwin_nt-4.01
>
>Which would enable constructs like the following to work:
>
>    if sys.platform in ['cygwin', 'linux']:
>        # ...

Can't you do something equivalent with regular expressions in python?

cgf