How can I disable use of Python programs on certain operating systems?

Question

I wish to disable the ability to run my program on certain Windows operating systems to prevent certain issues I can't replicate in newer versions. I would like to prevent running it on Windows XP, Vista, and eventually, 7.

How can I achieve this? For a little while I used an if statement with _platform but that did not work well or efficiently.

Answer 1

You can use sys.getwindowsversion :

import sys

ver = sys.getwindowsversion()
if ver.major == 6 and ver.minor == 1:
    print('Windows 7')
elif ver.major == 6 and ver.minor == 0:
    print('Windows Vista')
elif ver.major == 5 and ver.minor == 0:
    print('Windows XP')

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