How to get version of Windows?

[Eric Brunel]

Gerhard Haring wrote:

> 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.

Works like a charm. Thanks a lot!
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