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  r63460 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-05-18 15:54:47 -0500 (Sun, 18 May 2008) | 6 lines

  - Add unittests for platform.mac_ver (or rather, ensure that the unittest for
    that function actually tests something on OSX).

  - Add documentation to platform.mac_ver that explains why the middle element
    of the return value will not contain useful information.
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  r63464 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-18 17:07:42 -0500 (Sun, 18 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix test_platform (os was not imported)
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diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 2a69fd6..8447d41 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -729,7 +729,11 @@
             release = '%i.%i.%i' %(major, minor, patch)
         else:
             release = '%s.%i.%i' % (_bcd2str(major),minor,patch)
+
     if sysu:
+        # NOTE: this block is left as documentation of the
+        # intention of this function, the 'sysu' gestalt is no
+        # longer available and there are no alternatives.
         major =  int((sysu & 0xFF000000) >> 24)
         minor =  (sysu & 0x00F00000) >> 20
         bugfix = (sysu & 0x000F0000) >> 16
@@ -742,6 +746,8 @@
                  0x60:'beta',
                  0x80:'final'}.get(stage,'')
         versioninfo = (version,stage,nonrel)
+
+
     if sysa:
         machine = {0x1: '68k',
                    0x2: 'PowerPC',