Added normalization for Windows system name. Closes SF #945665.
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index d984402..372fe92 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@
# Betancourt, Randall Hopper, Karl Putland, John Farrell, Greg
# Andruk, Just van Rossum, Thomas Heller, Mark R. Levinson, Mark
# Hammond, Bill Tutt, Hans Nowak, Uwe Zessin (OpenVMS support),
-# Colin Kong, Trent Mick
+# Colin Kong, Trent Mick, Guido van Rossum
#
# History:
+# 1.0.3 - added normalization of Windows system name
# 1.0.2 - added more Windows support
# 1.0.1 - reformatted to make doc.py happy
# 1.0.0 - reformatted a bit and checked into Python CVS
@@ -957,6 +958,10 @@
# platforms
if use_syscmd_ver:
system,release,version = _syscmd_ver(system)
+ # Normalize system to what win32_ver() normally returns
+ # (_syscmd_ver() tends to return the vendor name as well)
+ if system == 'Microsoft Windows':
+ system = 'Windows'
# In case we still don't know anything useful, we'll try to
# help ourselves