diff --git a/Doc/library/email.headerregistry.rst b/Doc/library/email.headerregistry.rst
index af72b7c3b87..c884159e0e9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.headerregistry.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.headerregistry.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
    necessary by the core developers.
 
 .. versionadded:: 3.3
-   as a :term:`provisional module <provisional package>`
+   as a :term:`provisional module <provisional package>`.
 
 Headers are represented by customized subclasses of :class:`str`.  The
 particular class used to represent a given header is determined by the
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index e97ac86ecb1..b2d028d4c67 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 This article explains the new features in Python 3.3, compared to 3.2.
 
-.. note:: Alpha users should be aware that this document is currently in
+.. note:: Beta users should be aware that this document is currently in
    draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.3 moves towards
    release, so it's worth checking back even after reading earlier versions.
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test__locale.py b/Lib/test/test__locale.py
index dab1565fbe2..f7f1abdab20 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test__locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test__locale.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 from test.support import run_unittest
 
 if uname()[0] == "Darwin":
-    maj, min, mic = [int(part) for part in uname().release.split(".")]
+    maj, min, mic = [int(part) for part in uname()[2].split(".")]
     if (maj, min, mic) < (8, 0, 0):
         raise unittest.SkipTest("locale support broken for OS X < 10.4")