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Author ronaldoussoren
Recipients Christian.Clauss, Justin.Cappos, jackdied, jaraco, lemburg, math_foo, nchammas, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date 2019-02-11.15:04:59
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This issue can be closed. Status quo wins due to backward compatibility concerns.

BTW. The primary reason for proposing "macosx" as the return value for platform.system() is that the platform name as used in egg files (at the time, now wheels) is "macosx". That, and having two clearly different platforms with the same name (macOS and iOS).

And one final note: I definitely wouldn't mind having an API in platform that returns the marketing name and version of the current system (like mac_ver and linux_distribution).  But that API cannot be system_alias because its API contract does not give it access to enough information. Such an API could be designed in a new issue.
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