From d040bb64be0c33a48dba09e3ba064ffcf697ed1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mohamed Akram <mohd.akram@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:30:25 +0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gh-159550: Fix FreeBSD version in get_platform()

---
 Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py  |  2 ++
 Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py b/Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py
index 0657e458806e9b..0f1674dae787d1 100644
--- a/Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py
@@ -755,6 +755,8 @@ def get_platform():
             osname, release, machine = _osx_support.get_platform_osx(
                                                 get_config_vars(),
                                                 osname, release, machine)
+    elif osname == "freebsd":
+        release = release.partition('-')[0]
 
     return '-'.join(map(str, filter(None, (osname, release, machine))))
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py b/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
index 6b90f2960672b6..3c67d04f175531 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
@@ -390,6 +390,16 @@ def test_get_platform(self):
                                 '#1 Tue Jan 9 20:35:43 UTC 2018', machine))
                 self.assertEqual(get_platform(), f'android-9-{abi}')
 
+        # FreeBSD
+        os.name = 'posix'
+        sys.platform = 'freebsd'
+        self._set_uname((
+            'FreeBSD', 'localhost', '15.1-RELEASE-p4',
+            'FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p4 releng/15.1-n283627-e38a7085f3a8 GENERIC',
+            'amd64'
+        ))
+        self.assertEqual(get_platform(), 'freebsd-15.1-amd64')
+
         # XXX more platforms to tests here
 
     @unittest.skipIf(is_wasi, "Incompatible with WASI mapdir and OOT builds")

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 .../next/Library/2026-10-16-16-44-15.gh-issue-159550.mrjZIG.rst  | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-16-16-44-15.gh-issue-159550.mrjZIG.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-16-16-44-15.gh-issue-159550.mrjZIG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-16-16-44-15.gh-issue-159550.mrjZIG.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..fc6170bed1b2b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-16-16-44-15.gh-issue-159550.mrjZIG.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+On FreeBSD, :func:`sysconfig.get_platform` now omits the branch and patch level.