How to get version of Windows?

[Rudy Schockaert]

And when can we expect version 2.3 ;-)

"Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> schreef in bericht
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> Eric Brunel 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?
>
> For your and others information, Python 2.3 will have this avilable from
> the core (it comes up too often, and the Python test suite ended up
> wanting it!)
>
> Python 2.3a0 (#29, Dec  6 2002, 09:34:12) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import sys
>  >>> print sys.getwindowsversion.__doc__
> getwindowsversion()
>
> Return information about the running version of Windows.
> The result is a tuple of (major, minor, build, platform, text)
> All elements are numbers, except text which is a string.
> Platform may be 0 for win32s, 1 for Windows 9x/ME, 2 for Windows
NT/2000/XP
>
>  >>> sys.getwindowsversion()
> (5, 0, 2195, 2, 'Service Pack 3')
>
> Mark.
>