Issue #12326: don't test the major version of sys.platform

Use startswith, instead of ==, when testing sys.platform to support
new platforms like Linux 3 or OpenBSD 5.

Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class BuildRpmTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
 
         # XXX I am unable yet to make this test work without
         # spurious sdtout/stderr output under Mac OS X
-        if sys.platform != 'linux2':
+        if not sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
             return
 
         # this test will run only if the rpm commands are found
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class BuildRpmTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
 
         # XXX I am unable yet to make this test work without
         # spurious sdtout/stderr output under Mac OS X
-        if sys.platform != 'linux2':
+        if not sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
             return
 
         # http://bugs.python.org/issue1533164

Lib/test/regrtest.py

@@ -1391,8 +1391,8 @@ def printlist(x, width=70, indent=4):
 # Tests that are expected to be skipped everywhere except on one platform
 # are also handled separately.
 
-_expectations = {
+_expectations = (
-    'win32':
+    ('win32',
         """
         test__locale
         test_crypt
@@ -1420,15 +1420,15 @@ _expectations = {
         test_threadsignals
         test_wait3
         test_wait4
-        """,
+        """),
-    'linux2':
+    ('linux',
         """
         test_curses
         test_largefile
         test_kqueue
         test_ossaudiodev
-        """,
+        """),
-    'unixware7':
+    ('unixware',
         """
         test_epoll
         test_largefile
@@ -1438,8 +1438,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_pyexpat
         test_sax
         test_sundry
-        """,
+        """),
-    'openunix8':
+    ('openunix',
         """
         test_epoll
         test_largefile
@@ -1449,8 +1449,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_pyexpat
         test_sax
         test_sundry
-        """,
+        """),
-    'sco_sv3':
+    ('sco_sv',
         """
         test_asynchat
         test_fork1
@@ -1469,8 +1469,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_threaded_import
         test_threadedtempfile
         test_threading
-        """,
+        """),
-    'darwin':
+    ('darwin',
         """
         test__locale
         test_curses
@@ -1482,8 +1482,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_minidom
         test_ossaudiodev
         test_poll
-        """,
+        """),
-    'sunos5':
+    ('sunos',
         """
         test_curses
         test_dbm
@@ -1494,8 +1494,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_openpty
         test_zipfile
         test_zlib
-        """,
+        """),
-    'hp-ux11':
+    ('hp-ux',
         """
         test_curses
         test_epoll
@@ -1510,8 +1510,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_sax
         test_zipfile
         test_zlib
-        """,
+        """),
-    'cygwin':
+    ('cygwin',
         """
         test_curses
         test_dbm
@@ -1522,8 +1522,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_locale
         test_ossaudiodev
         test_socketserver
-        """,
+        """),
-    'os2emx':
+    ('os2emx',
         """
         test_audioop
         test_curses
@@ -1536,8 +1536,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_pty
         test_resource
         test_signal
-        """,
+        """),
-    'freebsd4':
+    ('freebsd',
         """
         test_epoll
         test_dbm_gnu
@@ -1553,8 +1553,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_timeout
         test_urllibnet
         test_multiprocessing
-        """,
+        """),
-    'aix5':
+    ('aix',
         """
         test_bz2
         test_epoll
@@ -1568,8 +1568,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_ttk_textonly
         test_zipimport
         test_zlib
-        """,
+        """),
-    'openbsd3':
+    ('openbsd',
         """
         test_ctypes
         test_epoll
@@ -1583,8 +1583,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_ttk_guionly
         test_ttk_textonly
         test_multiprocessing
-        """,
+        """),
-    'netbsd3':
+    ('netbsd',
         """
         test_ctypes
         test_curses
@@ -1598,12 +1598,8 @@ _expectations = {
         test_ttk_guionly
         test_ttk_textonly
         test_multiprocessing
-        """,
+        """),
-}
+)
-_expectations['freebsd5'] = _expectations['freebsd4']
-_expectations['freebsd6'] = _expectations['freebsd4']
-_expectations['freebsd7'] = _expectations['freebsd4']
-_expectations['freebsd8'] = _expectations['freebsd4']
 
 class _ExpectedSkips:
     def __init__(self):
@@ -1611,9 +1607,13 @@ class _ExpectedSkips:
         from test import test_timeout
 
         self.valid = False
-        if sys.platform in _expectations:
+        expected = None
-            s = _expectations[sys.platform]
+        for item in _expectations:
-            self.expected = set(s.split())
+            if sys.platform.startswith(item[0]):
+                expected = item[1]
+                break
+        if expected is not None:
+            self.expected = set(expected.split())
 
             # These are broken tests, for now skipped on every platform.
             # XXX Fix these!

Lib/test/test_fcntl.py

@@ -23,12 +23,9 @@ def get_lockdata():
     else:
         start_len = "qq"
 
-    if sys.platform in ('netbsd1', 'netbsd2', 'netbsd3',
+    if (any(sys.platform.startswith(prefix)
-                        'Darwin1.2', 'darwin',
+            for prefix in ('netbsd', 'freebsd', 'openbsd', 'bsdos'))
-                        'freebsd2', 'freebsd3', 'freebsd4', 'freebsd5',
+        or sys.platform in ('Darwin1.2', 'darwin')):
-                        'freebsd6', 'freebsd7', 'freebsd8',
-                        'bsdos2', 'bsdos3', 'bsdos4',
-                        'openbsd', 'openbsd2', 'openbsd3', 'openbsd4'):
         if struct.calcsize('l') == 8:
             off_t = 'l'
             pid_t = 'i'

Lib/test/test_logging.py

@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ class HandlerTest(BaseTest):
     def test_builtin_handlers(self):
         # We can't actually *use* too many handlers in the tests,
         # but we can try instantiating them with various options
-        if sys.platform in ('linux2', 'darwin'):
+        if sys.platform.startswith('linux') or sys.platform == 'darwin':
             for existing in (True, False):
                 fd, fn = tempfile.mkstemp()
                 os.close(fd)

Lib/test/test_socket.py

@@ -2074,7 +2074,7 @@ def test_main():
     ])
     if hasattr(socket, "socketpair"):
         tests.append(BasicSocketPairTest)
-    if sys.platform == 'linux2':
+    if sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
         tests.append(TestLinuxAbstractNamespace)
     if isTipcAvailable():
         tests.append(TIPCTest)

Lib/test/test_tarfile.py

@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ class GNUReadTest(LongnameTest):
         # Return True if the platform knows the st_blocks stat attribute and
         # uses st_blocks units of 512 bytes, and if the filesystem is able to
         # store holes in files.
-        if sys.platform == "linux2":
+        if sys.platform.startswith("linux"):
             # Linux evidentially has 512 byte st_blocks units.
             name = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "sparse-test")
             with open(name, "wb") as fobj:

Lib/test/test_tempfile.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ has_spawnl = hasattr(os, 'spawnl')
 
 # TEST_FILES may need to be tweaked for systems depending on the maximum
 # number of files that can be opened at one time (see ulimit -n)
-if sys.platform in ('openbsd3', 'openbsd4'):
+if sys.platform.startswith('openbsd'):
     TEST_FILES = 48
 else:
     TEST_FILES = 100

setup.py

@@ -1381,9 +1381,8 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         # End multiprocessing
 
         # Platform-specific libraries
-        if (platform in ('linux2', 'freebsd4', 'freebsd5', 'freebsd6',
+        if any(platform.startswith(prefix)
-                        'freebsd7', 'freebsd8')
+               for prefix in ("linux", "freebsd", "gnukfreebsd")):
-            or platform.startswith("gnukfreebsd")):
             exts.append( Extension('ossaudiodev', ['ossaudiodev.c']) )
         else:
             missing.append('ossaudiodev')