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Author Lorin.Hochstein
Recipients Lorin.Hochstein
Date 2013-08-28.20:59:43
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Amazon EC2 has their own Fedora-like Linux distribution (http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/). This distribution isn't recognized by platform.linux_distribution():

>>> import platform
>>> platform.linux_distribution()
('', '', '')

$ cat /etc/issue
Amazon Linux AMI release 2013.03
Kernel \r on an \m

Tested on Python 2.6.8.
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