updated with exhaustive list and tests for >=11

Author: ivanbelenky

Doc/library/sysconfig.rst

@@ -380,25 +380,32 @@ Other functions
    exact information included depends on the OS; e.g., on Linux, the kernel
    version isn't particularly important.
 
-   Examples of returned values:
+   Returned values:
 
-   - linux-i586
+   Linux platforms:
+   - linux-i586 
+   - linux-i686 
    - linux-alpha (?)
    - solaris-2.6-sun4u
 
-   Windows will return one of:
-
+   Windows platforms:
+   - win32 (32-bit Windows)
    - win-amd64 (64-bit Windows on AMD64, aka x86_64, Intel64, and EM64T)
    - win-arm64 (64-bit Windows on ARM64, aka AArch64)
-   - win32 (all others - specifically, sys.platform is returned)
-
-   macOS can return:
+   - win-arm32 (32-bit Windows on ARM)
+
+   macOS platforms:
+   - macosx-{11.*-15.*}-arm64 (Apple Silicon)
+   - macosx-10.{3,4}-ppc (PowerPC)
+   - macosx-10.{3,4}-ppc64 (64-bit PowerPC)
+   - macosx-10.{3,4}-i386 (32-bit Intel)
+   - macosx-10.{3,4}-x86_64 (64-bit Intel)
+   - macosx-10.4-fat (Universal binary with PPC and i386)
+   - macosx-10.4-fat3 (Universal binary with x86_64, PPC, and i386)
+   - macosx-10.4-fat64 (Universal binary with x86_64 and ppc64)
+   - macosx-10.4-universal (Universal binary with ppc64, x86_64, ppc, and i386)
+   - macosx-10.4-intel (Intel binary with x86_64 and i386)
 
-   - macosx-11.0-arm64
-   - macosx-10.6-ppc
-   - macosx-10.4-ppc64
-   - macosx-10.3-i386
-   - macosx-10.4-fat
 
    For other non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns :data:`sys.platform`.
 

Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py

@@ -638,25 +638,34 @@ def get_platform():
     exact information included depends on the OS; on Linux, the kernel version
     isn't particularly important.
 
-    Examples of returned values:
-       linux-i586
-       linux-alpha (?)
-       solaris-2.6-sun4u
-
-    Windows will return one of:
-       win-amd64 (64-bit Windows on AMD64 (aka x86_64, Intel64, EM64T, etc)
-       win-arm64 (64-bit Windows on ARM64 (aka AArch64)
-       win32 (all others - specifically, sys.platform is returned)
-
-    macOS can return:
-       macosx-11.0-arm64
-       macosx-10.6-ppc
-       macosx-10.4-ppc64
-       macosx-10.3-i386
-       macosx-10.4-fat
-
-
-    For other non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns 'sys.platform'.
+    Returned values:
+
+    Linux platforms:
+    - linux-i586 
+    - linux-i686 
+    - linux-alpha (?)
+    - solaris-2.6-sun4u
+
+    Windows platforms:
+    - win32 (32-bit Windows)
+    - win-amd64 (64-bit Windows on AMD64, aka x86_64, Intel64, and EM64T)
+    - win-arm64 (64-bit Windows on ARM64, aka AArch64)
+    - win-arm32 (32-bit Windows on ARM)
+
+    macOS platforms:
+    - macosx-{11.*-15.*}-arm64 (Apple Silicon)
+    - macosx-10.{3,4}-ppc (PowerPC)
+    - macosx-10.{3,4}-ppc64 (64-bit PowerPC)
+    - macosx-10.{3,4}-i386 (32-bit Intel)
+    - macosx-10.{3,4}-x86_64 (64-bit Intel)
+    - macosx-10.4-fat (Universal binary with PPC and i386)
+    - macosx-10.4-fat3 (Universal binary with x86_64, PPC, and i386)
+    - macosx-10.4-fat64 (Universal binary with x86_64 and ppc64)
+    - macosx-10.4-universal (Universal binary with ppc64, x86_64, ppc, and i386)
+    - macosx-10.4-intel (Intel binary with x86_64 and i386)
+
+
+   For other non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns :data:`sys.platform`.
 
     """
     if os.name == 'nt':

Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py

@@ -352,6 +352,13 @@ def test_get_platform(self):
 
             self.assertEqual(get_platform(), 'macosx-10.4-%s' % arch)
 
+        for macver in range(11, 16):
+            _osx_support._remove_original_values(get_config_vars())
+            get_config_vars()['CFLAGS'] = ('-fno-strict-overflow -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code'
+                                        '-arch arm64 -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall')
+            get_config_vars()['MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] = f"{macver}.0"
+            self.assertEqual(get_platform(), 'macosx-%d.0-arm64' % macver)
+
         # linux debian sarge
         os.name = 'posix'
         sys.version = ('2.3.5 (#1, Jul  4 2007, 17:28:59) '