Martin v. Löwis added the comment: According to
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17399302/how-can-i-detect-windows-8-1-in-a-desktop-application another strategy is to directly read the version out of the registry, from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion (values CurrentVersion, CurrentBuild) Not sure where to get service pack information from, though. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19143> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com