Issue #15164: Change return value of platform.uname() from a
plain tuple to a collections.namedtuple.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test__locale.py b/Lib/test/test__locale.py
index f7f1abd..4231f37 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test__locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test__locale.py
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 from platform import uname
 from test.support import run_unittest
 
-if uname()[0] == "Darwin":
-    maj, min, mic = [int(part) for part in uname()[2].split(".")]
+if uname().system == "Darwin":
+    maj, min, mic = [int(part) for part in uname().release.split(".")]
     if (maj, min, mic) < (8, 0, 0):
         raise unittest.SkipTest("locale support broken for OS X < 10.4")
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_platform.py b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
index cfe623a..6abf443 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_platform.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@
     def test_uname(self):
         res = platform.uname()
         self.assertTrue(any(res))
+        self.assertEqual(res[0], res.system)
+        self.assertEqual(res[1], res.node)
+        self.assertEqual(res[2], res.release)
+        self.assertEqual(res[3], res.version)
+        self.assertEqual(res[4], res.machine)
+        self.assertEqual(res[5], res.processor)
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform.startswith('win'), "windows only test")
     def test_uname_win32_ARCHITEW6432(self):
@@ -166,7 +172,7 @@
     def test_mac_ver(self):
         res = platform.mac_ver()
 
-        if platform.uname()[0] == 'Darwin':
+        if platform.uname().system == 'Darwin':
             # We're on a MacOSX system, check that
             # the right version information is returned
             fd = os.popen('sw_vers', 'r')