[Python-ideas] Determine Windows version in platform module

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Fri Dec 27 19:38:53 CET 2013


On 27.12.2013 19:18, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> Today I was looking for a way to determine whether I was on Windows >=
> Vista and couldn't find anything so I came up with this [1].
> 
> That led me to think about platform module.
> Honestly I can't see the usefulness of it as it doesn't give you any usable
> API to figure out what platform version you're on.

Have you had a look at the documentation ?

http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/platform.html?highlight=platform#windows-platform

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