R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: I think you are correct that the Availability can be removed, since the actual limits of the support are exactly as complicated as the code that supports them, and should give *some* result on most (all?) platforms. However, OS/X is certainly covered by the current one, since OS/X is a unix flavor. At this point in time it might be worth doing a sweep through the docs to remove all occurrences of 'Macintosh', since we don't support OS/9 any more. There look to be less than a dozen such references in the Python3 docs. I'm adding Gregory to nosy to see if he thinks it is appropriate to remove the 'availability' entirely, since he implemented the fallback. ---------- nosy: +gregory.p.smith, r.david.murray versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12243> _______________________________________