This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author lemburg
Recipients ezio.melotti, lemburg, portella
Date 2009-07-04.21:56:12
SpamBayes Score 6.61253e-06
Marked as misclassified No
Message-id <4A4FCFFB.7000400@egenix.com>
In-reply-to <1246713760.84.0.901681559212.issue3410@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
Content
Ezio Melotti wrote:
> Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> The Vista machine is running Py 2.5.2 but is not mine so I can't
> test/debug the issue properly there. FWIW I tried win32_ver() on it and
> I got ('', '6.0.6002', 'SP2', 'Multiprocessor Free').

Interesting. Looking at the code in win32_ver() should be getting
one of ('Vista', '2008Server', 'post2008Server'), but not '' for the
release.

> Here on WinXP with 2.6 I get ('XP', '5.1.2600', 'SP2', u'Uniprocessor
> Free') (why only the last is unicode?).

Do you have the win32 tools installed on that machine ? This could
be the reason.

> On Monday I'll have access to more Windows machines (including Vista)
> but they are all in English. If there's something that I should try
> there let me know.

Please check the results of win32_ver() on those machines. The
release part should always be set.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

________________________________________________________________________

::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! ::::

   eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH  Pastor-Loeh-Str.48
    D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg
           Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611
               http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/
History
Date User Action Args
2009-07-04 21:56:14lemburgsetrecipients: + lemburg, ezio.melotti, portella
2009-07-04 21:56:13lemburglinkissue3410 messages
2009-07-04 21:56:12lemburgcreate