what is better way of getting windows version in python?

Question

I am going to write a program that performs Windows OS version check, since I can do it with sys.windowsversion()[0] or with platform module that returns string not int what

Answer 1

You can do it by calling sys.getwindowsversion. For example this output:

>>> sys.getwindowsversion()
sys.getwindowsversion(major=6, minor=1, build=7601, platform=2, service_pack='Service Pack 1')

is for Windows 7.

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