New module platform.py, submitted by Marc-Andre Lemburg.

There's no separate documentation for this module yet - apart from the
doc-strings which explain the APIs.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 65ad925..57b2459 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ Extension modules
 Library
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+- Added new module "platform" which provides a wide range of tools
+  for querying platform dependent features.
+
 - netrc now allows Ascii punctuation characters in passwords.
 
 - shelve now supports the optional writeback argument, and exposes