[3.14] gh-138952: Document platform.machine() output casing inconsistency across...

gh-138952:  Document platform.machine() output casing inconsistency across platforms (GH-138962)
(cherry picked from commit dd15a2e11ea5d16ad42050a2723dec0e400ea394)

Co-authored-by: Aniket <148300120+Aniketsy@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: AN Long <aisk@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index 7bba8dd412c3aa19911a8bfbba09dfcaaeabbabf..256baa53ed59c78e421e90f20ab10f619a556f3b 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/platform.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ Cross platform
    Returns the machine type, e.g. ``'AMD64'``. An empty string is returned if the
    value cannot be determined.
 
+   The output is platform-dependent and may differ in casing and naming conventions.
+
 
 .. function:: node()