New submission from John McCrone <john.v.mccr...@gmail.com>:
The method platform.win32_ver() produces the client version for the release
rather than the server version on a Windows domain controller.
This is easy to recreate on 3.8.5. For example, on a Windows 2012 server
running as a domain controller, the method produces the following:
>>> import platform
>>> platform.win32_ver()
('8', '6.2.9200', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
The product type is 2:
>>> import sys
>>> sys.getwindowsversion().product_type
2
The correct value should not be '8' but rather '2012Server'. From looking at
the source (platform.py), it appears that we determine if we are on a windows
server by this check:
if getattr(winver, 'product_type', None) == 3
However, both types 2 (Domain Controller) and 3 (Non-Domain Controller Server)
are server types (see the documentation for sys.getwindowsversion()
https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html). Therefore, it seems likely to me
that it should check if the value of product_type is either 2 or 3 instead of
just 3.
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components: Windows
messages: 375285
nosy: jvm3487, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: platform win32_ver produces incorrect value for release on Windows
domain controllers
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8
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