From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:26:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #103220 from Jason Tishler:
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~113
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=989835c9fc4e18f5b73dda9d1f6c769e78eecf77;p=python

Patch #103220 from Jason Tishler:
  This patch adds support for Cygwin to util.get_platform(). A Cygwin
  specific case is needed due to the format of Cygwin's uname command,
  which contains '/' characters.
---

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index dd9de854f9..80e4814389 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ def get_platform ():
         # fall through to standard osname-release-machine representation
     elif osname[:4] == "irix":              # could be "irix64"!
         return "%s-%s" % (osname, release)
+    elif osname[:6] == "cygwin":
+        rel_re = re.compile (r'[\d.]+')
+        m = rel_re.match(release)
+        if m:
+            release = m.group()
             
     return "%s-%s-%s" % (osname, release, machine)