[issue19143] Finding the Windows version getting messier (detect windows 8.1?)
Marc-Andre Lemburg
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jun 10 20:08:05 CEST 2014
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:
On 10.06.2014 18:28, Steve Dower wrote:
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> The one concession that the Windows dev is willing to make is for logging, in which case the version number should be read as a string from a standard DLL like kernel32.dll. This would be appropriate for platform.win32_ver(), but as discussed above, not for sys.getwindowsversion().
So have platform.win32_ver() return the true version is acceptable ?
Note that the platform module is meant for identifying the platform,
not the runtime compatibility environment, so it has a slightly
different target audience.
Thanks,
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com
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