On Microsoft Vista platform.system() returns 'Microsoft' and platform.release() returns 'Windows'

Under Microsoft Windows XP SP2 platform.system() returns 'Windows' and platform.release() returns 'XP'.

This is problem was caused by a change in the output of the "ver" command. In Windows XP SP2 "ver" outputted 'Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]'  In Microsoft Vista "ver" outputted 'Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]'. The lack of the 3rd word before version causes _syscmd_ver(...) in platform.py to return 'Microsoft' for system instead of 'Microsoft Windows'. This causes uname() to return the incorrect values. Both system() and release() call uname().

This problem occurs in the trunk.

I have attached a patch against the trunk svn that fixes the symptom of the problem in uname()

Reclassifying as a patch. Marc-Andre, can you take a look? If not, please unassign.

I don't have Vista handy to check the patch. 

Ideally, win32_ver() should be patched to return proper values for Vista directly from the registry. Would be great if you could provide a patch for this as well.

However, in some cases _syscmd_ver() will still be used, so the patch is fine. Please add a comment explaining the problem and also add a check to set release to 'Vista' in case the version starts with '6.0'.

Thanks.

I updated the patch to included comments, and set the release to 'Vista' when the version starts with '6.0'. Unfortunately both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista both are version 6.0.

I updated win32_ver() to report the correct values for Vista and Windows Server 2008. It reports release of '2008Server' for Windows 2008 server, and release of 'post2008Server' for version 6.1 or greater. I have not tested it under Windows Server 2008.
File Added: Platform-VistaFix2.patch

Thank you.

Committed revision 55927.