Platform.python_version() fails

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I stumbled across this when trying to load an external library (ifcopenshell):
calling platform.python_version() fails, throwing an exception:

import platform
print platform.python_version()

results in

Message: failed to parse CPython sys.version: '2.7.0 ()'

Traceback:
  line 1382, in _sys_version, "C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit)\Plug-ins\IronPython\Lib\platform.py"
  line 1428, in python_version, "C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit)\Plug-ins\IronPython\Lib\platform.py"
  line 2, in <module>, "C:\Users\fsc\AppData\Local\Temp\TempScript.py"

I am on Rhino 5 SR12 64-bit (5.12.50810.13095, 10.08.2015)