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py3: replace sys.platform with pycompat.sysplatform (part 1 of 2)

sys.platform returns unicode on python 3 world. Our code base has most of the
things bytes because of the transformer. So we have a bytes version of this as
pycompat.sysplatform. This series of 2 patches replaces occurences of
sys.platform with pycompat.sysplatform.

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a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

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