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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/platform.rst3
-rwxr-xr-xLib/platform.py1
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_platform.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index d8e5166..929936e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/platform.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -228,9 +228,6 @@ Mac OS Platform
Entries which cannot be determined are set to ``''``. All tuple entries are
strings.
- Documentation for the underlying :c:func:`gestalt` API is available online at
- http://www.rgaros.nl/gestalt/.
-
Unix Platforms
--------------
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 967491a..6e301da 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -758,6 +758,7 @@ def _mac_ver_gestalt():
0x2: 'PowerPC',
0xa: 'i386'}.get(sysa,'')
+ versioninfo=('', '', '')
return release,versioninfo,machine
def _mac_ver_xml():
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_platform.py b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
index ec134a1..8751aa8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_platform.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ class PlatformTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEqual(res[1], ('', '', ''))
if sys.byteorder == 'little':
- self.assertEqual(res[2], 'i386')
+ self.assertIn(res[2], ('i386', 'x86_64'))
else:
self.assertEqual(res[2], 'PowerPC')
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index caa12a6..6bb9f9f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ C-API
Tests
-----
+- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
+ as the processor type on some Mac systems.
+
- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
Web site.