From 0b960f5a583afd458d7bd7feb41a527501143b61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Curtin <brian@python.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:07:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #16176. Properly identify Windows 8 via
 platform.platform()

Add handling of the 6.2 release line, aka Windows 8 and Windows 2012 Server.
---
 Lib/platform.py | 7 ++++++-
 Misc/NEWS       | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index eedc11c518d..686a0458453 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -668,8 +668,13 @@ def win32_ver(release='',version='',csd='',ptype=''):
                     release = '7'
                 else:
                     release = '2008ServerR2'
+            elif min == 2:
+                if product_type == VER_NT_WORKSTATION:
+                    release = '8'
+                else:
+                    release = '2012Server'
             else:
-                release = 'post2008Server'
+                release = 'post2012Server'
 
     else:
         if not release:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9e1e96b55e4..e1356add472 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
+
 - Issue #16114: The subprocess module no longer provides a misleading
   error message stating that args[0] did not exist when either the cwd or
   executable keyword arguments specified a path that did not exist.