How to detect Mac OS version using Python?

Question

My application is assumed to be running on a Mac OS X system. However, what I need to do is figure out what version of Mac OS (or Darwin) it is running on, preferably as a

Answer 1

platform.mac_ver() will return a tuple (release, versioninfo, machine

So get mac version by code

>>> platform.mac_ver()[0]

'10.8.4'

this method is easy