Mac build-installer.py doesn't support new plist format

[h2a10]

BPO	40400
Nosy	@ronaldoussoren, @ned-deily, @H2a10

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assignee = 'https://github.com/ned-deily'
closed_at = <Date 2020-06-25.11:20:47.360>
created_at = <Date 2020-04-26.18:17:18.032>
labels = ['OS-mac', '3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', 'build']
title = "Mac build-installer.py doesn't support new plist format"
updated_at = <Date 2020-06-25.11:20:47.358>
user = 'https://github.com/h2a10'

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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
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type = 'compile error'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue40400'
versions = ['Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8', 'Python 3.9', 'Python 3.10']

[h2a10]

when you run cpython/Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py with python 3.9.0 it failed with the following error
from plistlib import Plist
ImportError: cannot import name 'Plist' from 'plistlib'

[ned-deily]

Thanks for the report. There were several issues, including this one, when trying to run build-installer.py under current versions of Python 3. These have been fixed in the version of build-installer.py to be released with 3.9.0b4, 3.8.4, and 3.7.8.