[Python-checkins] bpo-41100: in test_platform, ignore 10.16 (GH-23485)

[ned-deily]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c0c23ea72b76b06b7db0d09415fa90bab8ded63a
commit: c0c23ea72b76b06b7db0d09415fa90bab8ded63a
branch: master
author: Ned Deily <nad at python.org>
committer: ned-deily <nad at python.org>
date: 2020-11-24T01:20:35-05:00
summary:

bpo-41100: in test_platform, ignore 10.16 (GH-23485)

files:
M Lib/test/test_platform.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_platform.py b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
index 9b6d93cb5fcda..1590cd509b95c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_platform.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
@@ -238,7 +238,10 @@ def test_mac_ver(self):
             # On Snow Leopard, sw_vers reports 10.6.0 as 10.6
             if len_diff > 0:
                 expect_list.extend(['0'] * len_diff)
-            self.assertEqual(result_list, expect_list)
+            # For compatibility with older binaries, macOS 11.x may report
+            # itself as '10.16' rather than '11.x.y'.
+            if result_list != ['10', '16']:
+                self.assertEqual(result_list, expect_list)
 
             # res[1] claims to contain
             # (version, dev_stage, non_release_version)