#8964: merge with 3.3.

diff --cc Lib/platform.py
Simple merge

diff --cc Misc/ACKS
Simple merge

diff --cc Misc/NEWS
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--- 1/Misc/NEWS
--- 2/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@@ -62,12 -78,9 +62,15 @@@ Core and Builtin
  Library
  -------
  
+ - Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
+   Patch by Martin Matusiak.
+ 
 +- Issue #18958: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing a string
 +  that starts with a UTF-8 BOM.
 +
 +- Issue #19307: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing objects
 +  of the wrong type.
 +
  - Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
    limiting the call to readline().  Original patch by Michał
    Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.