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Author	vstinner
Recipients	brett.cannon, lemburg, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2018-11-29.22:14:25
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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> Please keep Python 2.7 compatibility. It should be possible to copy the module back into Python 2.7 and use it there. I don't understand why someone would like to copy Lib/platform.py from the master branch to Python 2.7? Python 2.7 already provides the platform module, it's part of its standard library. platform.linux_distribution() function has been removed from master, so you cannot simply copy platform.py from master and use it in Python 2.7: it has a different API.

> Please keep Python 2.7 compatibility. It should be possible to copy the module back into Python 2.7 and use it there.

I don't understand why someone would like to copy Lib/platform.py from the master branch to Python 2.7? Python 2.7 already provides the platform module, it's part of its standard library.

platform.linux_distribution() function has been removed from master, so you cannot simply copy platform.py from master and use it in Python 2.7: it has a different API.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-11-29 22:14:25	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, brett.cannon, serhiy.storchaka
2018-11-29 22:14:25	vstinner	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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2018-11-29 22:14:25	vstinner	create