There are a couple of places in our code with references to RISCOS (mostly as #ifdef's). I propose we record this platform as deprecated in 3.4 and removed in 3.5. This needs PEP 11 to be updated.

Wikipedia mentions the existence of two operating systems named "RISC OS". I conjecture we are talking about this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS
In any case, there hasn't been any report of people actually running Python on that OS for years, so it's unlikely to work at all.

Note that 3e3bc84122d7 claims that RISCOS support was removed in 3.0. Skip removed some in 4d2aa4bfb2d6, and more in a2859ae89da9 and 4d2aa4bfb2d6. So I don't think that a deprecation release is necessary. Updating PEP 11 is still a good thing.

The third rev should have bee 48a31b0bf501. These hg revision numbers are too error prone :-(

New changeset ceb0184c7f44 by Christian Heimes in branch 'default':
RISCOS support has been removed a long time ago. Remove last remains in sys.flags code. #16501 can be closed, too.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ceb0184c7f44

New changeset 6b74a93a2b8a by Christian Heimes in branch 'default':
Remove sys.platform == 'riscos' checks from some Python and test files. #16501
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6b74a93a2b8a

I've removed the remaining ifdef from the sys.flags code, site.py and tests. The remaining code lines are 3rd party code. I'm not sure about the last two lines.

$ find -name '*.[ch]' -or -name '*.py' | xargs grep -i riscos
./Modules/zlib/zutil.h:#if defined(_BEOS_) || defined(RISCOS)
./Modules/zlib/example.c:#if defined(VMS) || defined(RISCOS)
./Modules/zlib/minigzip.c:#ifdef RISCOS
./Objects/floatobject.c:     * systems raise an exception then (RISCOS was mentioned as one,
./Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py:        eq(part2.get_content_type(), 'application/riscos')
./Mac/Tools/bundlebuilder.py:    'org.python.core', 'riscos', 'riscosenviron', 'riscospath'

application/riscos remains a valid MIME type, see

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/riscos

I believe it's safe to remove the riscos modules from the Mac build process...

Please, update PEP 11.

PEP 11 updated in 3abdc6b075fb.

Nothing left to do for this ticket; closing.