From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:24:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note the platform module.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~1041
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d5854fdc49073a3e49799192bc762ae0a68b64f;p=python

Note the platform module.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex
index 7a20ec217c..c1e3760584 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm.''
 \item[\module{ihooks}]
 --- Import hook support (for \refmodule{rexec}; may become obsolete).
 
+\item[\module{platform}]
+--- This module tries to retrieve as much platform identifying data as
+possible.  It makes this information available via function APIs.
+If called from the command line, it prints the platform information
+concatenated as single string to \code{sys.stdout}.  The output format
+is useable as part of a filename.
+\versionadded{2.3}
+
 \item[\module{smtpd}]
 --- An SMTP daemon implementation which meets the minimum requirements
 for \rfc{821} conformance.