bpo-41100: in test_platform, ignore 10.16 (GH-23485)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_platform.py b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
index 9b6d93c..1590cd5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_platform.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
@@ -238,7 +238,10 @@
# On Snow Leopard, sw_vers reports 10.6.0 as 10.6
if len_diff > 0:
expect_list.extend(['0'] * len_diff)
- self.assertEqual(result_list, expect_list)
+ # For compatibility with older binaries, macOS 11.x may report
+ # itself as '10.16' rather than '11.x.y'.
+ if result_list != ['10', '16']:
+ self.assertEqual(result_list, expect_list)
# res[1] claims to contain
# (version, dev_stage, non_release_version)