DOC: replace 'this platform' with the actual platform in the scalar type documentation (#18085)

In the scalar documentation it's unclear that 'this platform' refers to
the platform that the doc build job ran on, so replace it with the name
of the platform using python's platform module

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/_add_newdocs_scalars.py b/numpy/core/_add_newdocs_scalars.py
index b9b151224..d31f0037d 100644
--- a/numpy/core/_add_newdocs_scalars.py
+++ b/numpy/core/_add_newdocs_scalars.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ platform-dependent information.
 from numpy.core import dtype
 from numpy.core import numerictypes as _numerictypes
 from numpy.core.function_base import add_newdoc
+import platform
 
 ##############################################################################
 #
@@ -49,6 +50,8 @@ possible_aliases = numeric_type_aliases([
     ])
 
 
+
+
 def add_newdoc_for_scalar_type(obj, fixed_aliases, doc):
     # note: `:field: value` is rST syntax which renders as field lists.
     o = getattr(_numerictypes, obj)
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ def add_newdoc_for_scalar_type(obj, fixed_aliases, doc):
     character_code = dtype(o).char
     canonical_name_doc = "" if obj == o.__name__ else ":Canonical name: `numpy.{}`\n    ".format(obj)
     alias_doc = ''.join(":Alias: `numpy.{}`\n    ".format(alias) for alias in fixed_aliases)
-    alias_doc += ''.join(":Alias on this platform: `numpy.{}`: {}.\n    ".format(alias, doc)
+    alias_doc += ''.join(":Alias on this platform ({} {}): `numpy.{}`: {}.\n    ".format(platform.system(), platform.machine(), alias, doc)
                          for (alias_type, alias, doc) in possible_aliases if alias_type is o)
     docstring = """
     {doc}