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  r83646 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-08-03 09:44:35 +0200 (Tue, 03 Aug 2010) | 9 lines

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    r83644 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-08-03 09:42:42 +0200 (Tue, 03 Aug 2010) | 2 lines

    Fix for issue 9455: platform.mac_ver() broken on OSX/ppc
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diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 9e7ee5f..c501456 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@
     release = pl['ProductVersion']
     versioninfo=('', '', '')
     machine = os.uname()[4]
-    if machine == 'ppc':
+    if machine in ('ppc', 'Power Macintosh'):
         # for compatibility with the gestalt based code
         machine = 'PowerPC'