sysconfig should not rely on sys.version

[carlbordum]

BPO	37592
Nosy	@tarekziade, @carlbordum
PRs	bpo-37592: sysconfig no longer relies on sys.version #14776

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created_at = <Date 2019-07-14.14:18:09.238>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library', '3.9']
title = 'sysconfig should not rely on sys.version'
updated_at = <Date 2019-07-14.14:20:50.854>
user = 'https://github.com/carlbordum'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue37592'
versions = ['Python 3.9']

Linked PRs

• gh-81773: Avoid parsing sys.version string in sysconfig #146149

[carlbordum]

I found this FIXME and replaced it with code that follows the git tags naming scheme.

[mattip]

PR #14776 was closed, deferring to PR #24644 so I think this issue should be closed.

[FFY00]

No, it is still used to calculate _PY_VERSION, and is also used in get_platform, which the original PR did not touch. I don't think it's a huge issue, but as the documentation advises us to not extract information from it, we should replace such usages.

[FFY00]

cpython/Lib/sysconfig.py

Line 169 in 6d8da23

_PY_VERSION = sys.version.split()[0]

cpython/Lib/sysconfig.py

Lines 765 to 770 in 6d8da23

	if 'amd64' in sys.version.lower():
	return 'win-amd64'
	if '(arm)' in sys.version.lower():
	return 'win-arm32'
	if '(arm64)' in sys.version.lower():
	return 'win-arm64'

[vstinner]

 if 'amd64' in sys.version.lower(): 
 return 'win-amd64' 
 if '(arm)' in sys.version.lower(): 
 return 'win-arm32' 
 if '(arm64)' in sys.version.lower(): 
 return 'win-arm64' 

I removed this code in PR gh-146145 which adds _sysconfig.get_platform() on Windows.

The last line using sys.version in sysconfig is: _PY_VERSION = sys.version.split()[0].

[vstinner]

I created #146149 to add _sysconfig._PY_VERSION.

[vstinner]

@FFY00:

No, it is still used to calculate _PY_VERSION, and is also used in get_platform, which the original PR did not touch. I don't think it's a huge issue, but as the documentation advises us to not extract information from it, we should replace such usages.

I wrote #146149 but I'm not sure that this change is worth it. _PY_VERSION = sys.version.split()[0] just works. I prefer to just close this issue.

Reopen it if you consider that sysconfig should really not parse sys.version string (to set _PY_VERSION).