Gerhard Häring gerhard.haering at opus-gmbh.net
Thu Dec 12 04:32:28 EST 2002

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Eric Brunel <eric.brunel at pragmadev.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but I searched a lot around and 
> couldn't find anything. I'd like to know the version of Windows I'm running 
> on from a Python program. How can I do that? AFAIK, sys.platform, os.name 
> and related stuff always return the same thing on any Windows flavor.
> 
> To be more precise, what I need to know is the Windows "lineage": 
> Win95/98/Me or WinNT/2k/XP. Any clue on a secure way to do that?

With http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/platform.py

Check out platform.win32_ver() there.
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