encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of decoding from the
locale encoding in strict mode. It fixes the function on Fedora 19 which is
probably the first major distribution release with a non-ASCII name. Patch
written by Toshio Kuratomi.

The "Gestalt" function on OSX is deprecated (starting with OSX 10.8),
remove its usage from the stdlib. The patch removes a number of private
functions and a private module, but does not change the public API.

The removed code was effectively dead, the platform module has used
other code to fetch the OSX version for years and could only use
on the Gestalt-based code as a fallback. That fallback can only trigger
on broken OSX installs (that is, someone has removed parts of the system
install)

ModuleNotFoundError.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Add handling of the 6.2 release line, aka Windows 8 and Windows 2012 Server.

Add handling of the 6.2 release line, aka Windows 8 and Windows 2012 Server.

#16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file. Fix original patch

#16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file. Fix original patch

#16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file. Use 'communicate()' and decode the bytes

#16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file. Use 'communicate()'

Closes #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file. Solve a 2.7 bootstrap issue

plain tuple to a collections.namedtuple.

plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes
(structseq objects).

People searcing for the way to get a "service pack" will never find that we
provide it here, and people that find this function won't know what CSD is
until they run the function. On top of this, they won't know what the value
means unless they really have a service pack installed.

CSD, or Customer Service Diagnostics, is apparently no longer used, and was
rarely used term at that. Most references to it online are from
universities making Windows 2000 and XP service packs available to students.

as the processor type on some Mac systems.  Also fix NameError in fallback
_mac_ver_gestalt function.  And remove out-of-date URL in docs.

as the processor type on some Mac systems.  Also fix NameError in fallback
_mac_ver_gestalt function.  And remove out-of-date URL in docs.