In a number of places code still revers

to "sys.platform == 'mac'" and that is
dead code because it refers to a platform
that is no longer supported (and hasn't been
supported for several releases).

Fixes issue #7908 for the trunk.

Lib/platform.py

@@ -1171,10 +1171,6 @@ def uname():
             if not version:
                 version = vendor
 
-        elif os.name == 'mac':
-            release,(version,stage,nonrel),machine = mac_ver()
-            system = 'MacOS'
-
     # System specific extensions
     if system == 'OpenVMS':
         # OpenVMS seems to have release and version mixed up