The contents of this attribute are an implementation detail, as
documented for #9442, so we should not parse it, to support non-CPython
VMs with distutils2 in the future.
Unfortunately, one use comes directly from PEP 345, so an edit will have
to be agreed before fixing the code (see comment in p7g.markers).
Other remaining uses are found in p7g.compiler and could be replaced by
the platform module (which also parses sys.version, but then it wouldn’t
be my fault :)
Logging replaces verbose arguments. I haven’t fixed the example in
Doc/install/install.rst because I have major fixes and changes to the
oc under way and will fix or remove that example as part of that task.
PEP 370 features and sys.dont_write_bytecode are always available
in 3.3; the distutils2 backport still has the conditionals.
I also renamed an internal misnamed method and fixed a few things
(“packaging2” name, stray print, unused import, fd leak).
Éric Araujo
Tarek Ziade
Victor Stinner