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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:43:22 -0600
Subject: Re: What version of glibc is Python using?
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 10/12/2013 3:53 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>>
>> That function is really bogus. It states itself, that it has "intimate
>> knowledge of how different libc versions add symbols to the executable
>> and thus is probably only useable for executables compiled using gcc"
>> which is just another way of saying "it'll become outdated and broken
>> soon". It's not even done by reading the symbol table, it opens the
>> binary and matches a RE *shocked* I would have expected such hacks in a
>> shell script.
>>
>> glibc has a function for this:
>>
>>      gnu_get_libc_version ()
>>
>> which should be used.
>
>
> So *please* submit a patch with explanation.

Easier said than done.  The module is currently written in pure
Python, and the comment "Note: Please keep this module compatible to
Python 1.5.2" would appear to rule out the use of ctypes to call the
glibc function.  I wonder though whether that comment is really still
appropriate.