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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2017-09-04 16:36:05 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-09-04 16:36:05 -0700 |
| commit | 069306312addf87252e2dbf250fc7632fc8b7da3 (patch) | |
| tree | 92917032b65208b37ce8aeca6011d3eea30ce205 /Doc/distutils | |
| parent | e1b0287c0440399e8cc855897113614fa5f6bc96 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-069306312addf87252e2dbf250fc7632fc8b7da3.tar.gz | |
remove IRIX support (closes bpo-31341) (#3310)
See PEP 11.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/distutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/distutils/apiref.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst index b5b7731074..622c7d1708 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst @@ -1086,19 +1086,16 @@ other utility module. Return a string that identifies the current platform. This is used mainly to distinguish platform-specific build directories and platform-specific built - distributions. Typically includes the OS name and version and the architecture - (as supplied by 'os.uname()'), although the exact information included depends - on the OS; eg. for IRIX the architecture isn't particularly important (IRIX only - runs on SGI hardware), but for Linux the kernel version isn't particularly - important. + distributions. Typically includes the OS name and version and the + architecture (as supplied by 'os.uname()'), although the exact information + included depends on the OS; e.g., on Linux, the kernel version isn't + particularly important. Examples of returned values: * ``linux-i586`` * ``linux-alpha`` * ``solaris-2.6-sun4u`` - * ``irix-5.3`` - * ``irix64-6.2`` For non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns ``sys.platform``. |