New submission from Matthew Scott <m...@11craft.com>:

Using Python 3.2.2 and Python 3.3.0a2 (installed via 64-bit installers in 
official DMGs on python.org), 'distutils.util.get_platform()' returns an 
incorrect OS version when running on Mac OSX 10.7.

Using Python 2.6.7, and Python 2.7.1 (the versions included with Mac OSX), the 
output indicates 'macosx-10.7' correctly.

> for version in 2.6 2.7 3.2 3.3; do python${version} -c "from __future__ 
> import print_function;import 
> distutils.util,sys;print(sys.version.split()[0],distutils.util.get_platform())";
>  done 2.6.7 macosx-10.7-intel
2.7.1 macosx-10.7-intel
3.2.2 macosx-10.6-intel
3.3.0a2 macosx-10.6-intel

Some packages make use of this in their setup.py to determine the proper 
location of libraries.

For example, the 'readline' distribution's setup.py does so here: 
https://github.com/ludwigschwardt/python-readline/blob/6f0e801fa1632fcbb0e005eb9709aaa6051a0f28/setup.py#L33

It fails due to the incorrect assumption that it's running on 10.6 instead of 
10.7.  Excerpt from "python setup.py bdist_egg":

building 'readline' extension
Compiling with an SDK that doesn't seem to exist: /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk
Please check your Xcode installation
gcc-4.2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -isysroot 
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk -DHAVE_RL_CALLBACK -DHAVE_RL_CATCH_SIGNAL 
-DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_APPEND_CHARACTER -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_DISPLAY_MATCHES_HOOK 
-DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_MATCHES -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_SUPPRESS_APPEND 
-DHAVE_RL_PRE_INPUT_HOOK -I. 
-I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/include/python3.2m -c 
Modules/3.x/readline.c -o 
build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-3.2/Modules/3.x/readline.o -Wno-strict-prototypes 
-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk -arch i386 -arch x86_64
In file included from Modules/3.x/readline.c:8:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/include/python3.2m/Python.h:11:20:
 error: limits.h: No such file or directory

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assignee: eric.araujo
components: Distutils, Library (Lib), Macintosh
messages: 157504
nosy: Matthew.Scott, eric.araujo, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python 3.x distutils.util.get_platform returns incorrect value using Mac 
OSX 10.7
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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