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Update sys.platform doc for #12326. 

Backport from Python 3.2 (e11b4c945f7e).
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This string contains a platform identifier that can be used to append
platform-specific components to :data:`sys.path`, for instance.
For Unix systems, this is the lowercased OS name as returned by ``uname -s``
with the first part of the version as returned by ``uname -r`` appended,
e.g. ``'sunos5'`` or ``'linux2'``, *at the time when Python was built*.
Unless you want to test for a specific system version, it is therefore
recommended to use the following idiom::
For most Unix systems, this is the lowercased OS name as returned by ``uname
-s`` with the first part of the version as returned by ``uname -r`` appended,
e.g. ``'sunos5'``, *at the time when Python was built*. Unless you want to
test for a specific system version, it is therefore recommended to use the
following idiom::
if sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
if sys.platform.startswith('freebsd'):
# FreeBSD-specific code here...
elif sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
# Linux-specific code here...
.. versionchanged:: 2.7.3
Since lots of code check for ``sys.platform == 'linux2'``, and there is
no essential change between Linux 2.x and 3.x, ``sys.platform`` is always
set to ``'linux2'``, even on Linux 3.x. In Python 3.3 and later, the
value will always be set to ``'linux'``, so it is recommended to always
use the ``startswith`` idiom presented above.
For other systems, the values are:
================ ===========================
System :data:`platform` value
================ ===========================
Windows ``'win32'``
Windows/Cygwin ``'cygwin'``
Mac OS X ``'darwin'``
OS/2 ``'os2'``
OS/2 EMX ``'os2emx'``
RiscOS ``'riscos'``
AtheOS ``'atheos'``
================ ===========================
===================== ===========================
System :data:`platform` value
===================== ===========================
Linux (2.x *and* 3.x) ``'linux2'``
Windows ``'win32'``
Windows/Cygwin ``'cygwin'``
Mac OS X ``'darwin'``
OS/2 ``'os2'``
OS/2 EMX ``'os2emx'``
RiscOS ``'riscos'``
AtheOS ``'atheos'``
===================== ===========================
.. seealso::
:attr:`os.name` has a coarser granularity. :func:`os.uname` gives