STINNER Victor added the comment:

Why is this function even exposed on Linux?

It is a deliberate design choice of the platform module. mac_ver(), win32_ver() and linux_distribution() are available on all platforms. mac_ver() says "entries which cannot be determined are set to ''. All tuple entries are strings." Maybe it should be better explained in the doc. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, haypo versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23747> _______________________________________