Get Windows Version In Python

when i type into the Console(CMD) 'winver' i will get my windows version (The four numbers left of the build number, example: 1803,1903,1909,2004,20H2) But how can i get my windows

Solution 1:

you can use platform module

import platform

print(platform.platform())
print(platform.system())
print(platform.release())
print(platform.version())
print(platform.version().split('.')[2]) 
print(platform.machine())

output:

Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
Windows
10
10.0.19041
19041
AMD64

Solution 2:

You can make use of the sys library, it has a command just for this. Python Docs on sys

import sys
version = sys.getwindowsversion()
print(version)
print(version[2]) # You can directly reference the build element by index numberprint(version.build) # Or by name

Output:

sys.getwindowsversion(major=10, minor=0, build=19042, platform=2, service_pack='')
19042
19042

Solution 3:

To put a string inside a string without getting sinttax error you should use single quotes. The code would look like this:

import osos.system("Reg Query 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion' /v ReleaseId")
input()

Solution 4:

The only registry entry I was able to find that contains the 20H2 value on my system was

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DisplayVersion

Displayversion is also a REG_SZ value.

Unfortunately I don't know since which Windows 10 version this entry exists. I found some info that on older Windows 10 installations this key was an optional 32bit DWORD value that could be used to show build info, edition, WinDir path on the desktop.

But this is definitely the location where winver gets the version info from. If you modify the string winver also shows the modified value.