How to get version of Windows?

Eric Brunel eric.brunel at pragmadev.com
Thu Dec 12 04:25:16 EST 2002


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?

TIA
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