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  r74641 | brett.cannon | 2009-09-03 14:29:20 -0700 (Thu, 03 Sep 2009) | 14 lines

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    r74640 | brett.cannon | 2009-09-03 14:25:21 -0700 (Thu, 03 Sep 2009) | 7 lines

    test_platform fails on OS X Snow Leopard because the UNIX command to get the
    canonical version, sw_vers, leaves off trailing zeros in the version number
    (e.g. 10.6 instead of 10.6.0). Test now compensates by tacking on extra zeros
    for the test comparison.

    Fixes issue #6806.
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Lib/test/test_platform.py

@@ -149,7 +149,13 @@ class PlatformTest(unittest.TestCase):
                     break
             fd.close()
             self.assertFalse(real_ver is None)
-            self.assertEquals(res[0], real_ver)
+            result_list = res[0].split('.')
+            expect_list = real_ver.split('.')
+            len_diff = len(result_list) - len(expect_list)
+            # On Snow Leopard, sw_vers reports 10.6.0 as 10.6
+            if len_diff > 0:
+                expect_list.extend(['0'] * len_diff)
+            self.assertEquals(result_list, expect_list)
 
             # res[1] claims to contain
             # (version, dev_stage, non_release_version)