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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 65ad925..57b2459 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@
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