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  r70594 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-03-25 20:44:58 +0100 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009) | 9 lines

  Remove the sys.version_info shortcut, since they cause the APIs
  to return different information than the _sys_version() output
  used in previous Python versions.

  This also fixes issue5561: platform.python_version_tuple returns tuple of ints, should be strings

  Added more tests for the various platform functions.
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  r70595 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-03-25 20:45:33 +0100 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  News item for the platform.py fix (r70594).
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 Library
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+- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
+  python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
+  output compared to previous Python versions.
+
 - Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
   forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
   with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or