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From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Subject: Re: What version of glibc is Python using?
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:20:05 -0700
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In article <l3as90$5bk$1@dont-email.me>, John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> 
wrote:
[...]
> Why is the info from "plaform.libc_ver()" so bogus?

The code is here:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/platform.py#l141

Perhaps you could open an issue on the Python bug tracker.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org