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Author	lemburg
Recipients	Justin.Cappos, jackdied, lemburg, ronaldoussoren
Date	2010-02-22.22:35:03
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Message-id	<1266878105.13.0.219860621185.issue7850@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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platform.system() is a direct interface to platform.uname() which in return is an interface to the platform's uname() API, so the reasoning is much the same as for sys.platform on those platforms that do expose a uname() function (and command). On Mac OS X, uname returns "Darwin". What we can do, is add a new function parameter ''aliased'' (just like we have for platform.platform()) which then enables applying some aliasing to the returned uname() values.

platform.system() is a direct interface to platform.uname() which in return is an interface to the platform's uname() API, so the reasoning is much the same as for sys.platform on those platforms that do expose a uname() function (and command).

On Mac OS X, uname returns "Darwin".

What we can do, is add a new function parameter ''aliased'' (just like we have for platform.platform()) which then enables applying some aliasing to the returned uname() values.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-02-22 22:35:05	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, ronaldoussoren, jackdied, Justin.Cappos
2010-02-22 22:35:05	lemburg	set	messageid: <1266878105.13.0.219860621185.issue7850@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-02-22 22:35:03	lemburg	link	issue7850 messages
2010-02-22 22:35:03	lemburg	create