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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell E. Owen
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:55 PM
How can I get the version of MacOS X within a python program?
(e.g. 10.4.5 -- something that is recognizable, rather than the kernel
version).
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P.S. I'm going to be trying to figure out the same thing for unix and
even Windows. I think I know how to do those, but if you happen to know
or have sample code, that'd be great.
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On Windows, you can use sys.getwindowsversion, which will return
something that looks like:
(5, 1, 2600, 2, 'Service Pack 2')
The first 3 values define the windows version; the fourth is generated
by python code as a general NT vs CE vs ME identifier.
Here's some sample code (table data cheerfully borrowed from the Inno
Setup installer tool on Windows).
##########################
import sys
win_versions = {
'4.0.950':'Windows 95',
'4.0.1111':'Windows 95 OSR 2 & OSR 2.1',
'4.0.1212':'Windows 95 OSR 2.5',
'4.1.1998':'Windows 98',
'4.1.2222':'Windows 98 Second Edition',
'4.9.3000':'Windows Me',
'4.0.1381':'Windows NT 4.0',
'5.0.2195':'Windows 2000',
'5.1.2600':'Windows XP',
'5.2.3790':'Windows Server 2003',
}
version = win_versions["%d.%d.%d" % sys.getwindowsversion()[:3]]
print version
##########################
Note that this tool does NOT identify 64-bit versions of Windows
(they'll show up as either XP or Server 2K3). I don't know how you'd do
that.
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