Question

Anyone know how to determine the Windows Edition ??

E.g. for both 32bit and 64bit of Windows:
– Windows XP Home/Professional
– Windows Vista Business/Ultimate…etc
– Windows 7 Home Basic/Home Premium/Professional/Ultimate…etc

I wonder if could retrieve this info from registry or Python API ??

Thanks.

Answer 1

If ctypes doesn’t work (due to 32 vs 64 bits?), this hack should:

def get_Windows_name():
    import subprocess, re
    o = subprocess.Popen('systeminfo', stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
    try: o = str(o, "latin-1")  # Python 3+
    except: pass  
    return re.search("OS Name:\s*(.*)", o).group(1).strip()

print(get_Windows_name())

Or just read the registry:

try: import winreg
except: import _winreg as winreg
with winreg.OpenKey(winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion") as key:
    print(winreg.QueryValueEx(key, "EditionID")[0])

Or use this:

from win32com.client import GetObject
wim = GetObject('winmgmts:')
print([o.Caption for o in wim.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")][0])