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Božo Stojković
Božo Stojković

Reputation: 2943

Get windows 10 build version (release ID)

I want to get Windows build version. I have searched everywhere for this, but to no avail.

No, I don't want to know if it's 7, 8, 10, or whatever. I don't want the Windows build number. I want to know the Windows build version (1507, 1511, 1607, etc.)

I am not sure what the official name of this would be, but here is an image of what I'm asking for:

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I tried using the sys, os and platform modules, but I can't seem to find anything built-in that can do this.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 9068

Answers (4)

napuzba
napuzba

Reputation: 6298

It seems you are looking for the ReleaseID which is different from the build number.

You can find it by query the value of ReleaseID in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion registry key.

You can query the value using winreg module:

import winreg

def getReleaseId():    
    key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion"
    val = r"ReleaseID"

    with winreg.OpenKey(winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, key) as key:
        releaseId = int(winreg.QueryValueEx(key,val)[0])

    return releaseId

or REG command:

import os

def getReleaseId():
    key = r"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion"
    val = r"ReleaseID"

    output = os.popen( 'REG QUERY "{0}" /V "{1}"'.format( key , val)  ).read()
    releaseId = int( output.strip().split(' ')[-1] )

    return releaseId

Upvotes: 4

Gringo Suave
Gringo Suave

Reputation: 31930

The build number is sufficient and can be found with:

sys.getwindowsversion().build

or the platform module. Match the build with the table at this link to determine the ReleaseId you'd like to target:

In this case 1511 corresponds to TH2 and build 10586:

# 1511  Threshold 2     November 10, 2015   10586

Upvotes: 3

napuzba
napuzba

Reputation: 6298

You can use ctypes and GetVersionEx from Kernel32.dll to find the build number.

import ctypes
def getWindowsBuild():   
    class OSVersionInfo(ctypes.Structure):
        _fields_ = [
            ("dwOSVersionInfoSize" , ctypes.c_int),
            ("dwMajorVersion"      , ctypes.c_int),
            ("dwMinorVersion"      , ctypes.c_int),
            ("dwBuildNumber"       , ctypes.c_int),
            ("dwPlatformId"        , ctypes.c_int),
            ("szCSDVersion"        , ctypes.c_char*128)];
    GetVersionEx = getattr( ctypes.windll.kernel32 , "GetVersionExA")
    version  = OSVersionInfo()
    version.dwOSVersionInfoSize = ctypes.sizeof(OSVersionInfo)
    GetVersionEx( ctypes.byref(version) )    
    return version.dwBuildNumber

Upvotes: 2

ThirdDeviation
ThirdDeviation

Reputation: 1

I don't know of any libraries that will give you this value directly, but you can parse the command window output when you open a new command window via os.popen().

print(os.popen('cmd').read())

The boot screen for the command window has the version/build data on the first line. I'm running version 6.1, build 7601, according to the following output from os.popen():

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] 
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\...>

And when I run winver, I see that I'm running Windows 7, Version 6.1, Build 7601: SP1:

Winver output screencap

Which ties to the interpretation of the first line in the output from os.popen().

Upvotes: -3

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