Nir, 
I appreciate very much what you are doing. I was about to do the same ;-)

I'll review your code shortly. I like the idea to use /etc/os-release, as it has the most complete information. Stay tuned.
Andy

Am 6. Dezember 2015 18:12:52 MEZ, schrieb Nir Cohen <report@bugs.python.org>:
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>Nir Cohen added the comment:
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>I have a premliminary implementation of it: https://github.com/nir0s/ld
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>Would love some help. It tries to use adhere to the standards
>(os-release first, lsb-release later, then, distro-specific release
>files).
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>It also returns more types of values then there were before.
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