Hi, I am one of the python.org webmasters. We get people -- often children who want to install python on their computers but don't know what OS they are running. Nearly all of these people are running Windows, though I did get somebody who was running FreeBSD the other day. :)
Microsoft tells you to do this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/which-operating-system This is asking an awful lot of the people who are mailing webmaster and who don't know what OS they are running. It is futile to tell these people methods to find out what OS version they are running that vary depending on what OS you have, so I am looking for a thing you can do on any version of windows which will reliably spit out the correct answer. something along the lines of the windows XP discovery: Click the Start button, click Run, type winver, and then press Enter. looks good. Perhaps it has to be: open a command window (but do you do the same thing to do that on all windows versions?) and type winver Now that page, of course, supposedly tells you what version you are running if you connect to it over the internet with the machine you want to test. But not having a windows system or 12 to test with, I am not sure what the results are, and whether that will in itself be good enough for people who just want to learn how to get Python. thanks very much, Laura _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
