How to get version of Windows?

[Gerhard Häring]

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.
-- 
Gerhard Häring
OPUS GmbH München
Tel.: +49 89 - 889 49 7 - 32
http://www.opus-gmbh.net/