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distutils.util.get_platform documentation does not match Windows behavior #106828

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The documentation for distutils.util.get_platform says:

For non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns sys.platform.

https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/apiref.html#distutils.util.get_platform

That presumably includes Windows. But Windows returns strings like win-amd64:

>>> import sys
>>> import distutils.util
>>> sys.platform
'win32'
>>> distutils.util.get_platform()
'win-amd64'
>>>

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