Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: On the Vista machine that returned ('', '6.0.6002', 'SP2', 'Multiprocessor Free') there is ActiveState's Python 2.5.2 that includes the pywin32 extension.
I managed to run pdb on it and the result was http://dpaste.com/hold/63642/ Python 2.5 doesn't have any check for Vista, and in win32_ver(), inside the "elif plat == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT:" it only checks for maj <= 4 and maj == 5. Vista is 6 and 'release' remains unset [1]. In Py 2.6 there's also if maj == 6 [2] (and now maj == 7 should be added too). However, I also tried to run what the OP said and indeed I found some problem. With pdb.run('platform._syscmd_ver()'), on Vista in English I get: -> info = pipe.read() (Pdb) s > c:\program files\python26\lib\platform.py(493)_syscmd_ver() -> if pipe.close(): (Pdb) info '\nMicrosoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]\n' ... -> m = _ver_output.match(info) (Pdb) s > c:\program files\python26\lib\platform.py(511)_syscmd_ver() -> if m is not None: (Pdb) m <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x0000000002812AE0> (Pdb) m.groups() ('Microsoft', 'Windows', '6.0.6002') where _ver_output = re.compile(r'(?:([\w ]+) ([\w.]+) ' '.*' 'Version ([\d.]+))') In non-English versions instead the regex doesn't match: -> if pipe.close(): (Pdb) p info '\nMicrosoft Windows [Versione 6.0.6002]\n' ... > c:\program files\python25\lib\platform.py(420)_syscmd_ver() -> m = _ver_output.match(info) (Pdb) n > c:\program files\python25\lib\platform.py(421)_syscmd_ver() -> if m: (Pdb) m (Pdb) Since 'Version' is translated, the regex fails if the translation is different because it checks specifically for the word 'Version'. Replacing it with \S+ as the OP suggested sounds like a reasonable solution. It is possible that even other versions of Windows (e.g. XP) have 'Version' translated, can you reproduce it with your German XP? Later I can try on another non-English XP and see if the regex match. [1]: /python/branches/release25-maint/Lib/platform.py?view=markup [2]: /python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/platform.py?view=markup ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3410> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com