On Nov 07, 2013, at 04:56 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

>I disagree about sys.implementation. It's useless and wrong for cross builds.
>Please use sysconfig instead. What sysconfig is maybe missing is a set of
>variables which you can rely on.

Agreed that sysconfig is a better place for more general values.  My point was
that if OpenSUSE wants to carry deltas that are specific only to its platform,
then sys.implementation._<whatever> is the standard place to put it.