From: Aniket <148300120+Aniketsy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:56:21 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: gh-138952:  Document platform.machine() output casing inconsistency across platforms... 
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gh-138952:  Document platform.machine() output casing inconsistency across platforms (#138962)

Co-authored-by: AN Long <aisk@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index 88affb5eea2b..d05c6e5a2aa2 100644
--- 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()