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A comment on Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)'.

Re:Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)' by bcj on Saturday October 04, 2014 @12:10PM (#8409779)
I ran into some code a few days ago that wouldn't install because it was checking OS X version as a string and '10.10' < '10.5'. Bad code will always find a way
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Re:Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)' by songgao on Saturday October 04, 2014 @12:25PM (#8409818)
Any chance it was Matlab? I had to change version to 9 or 90 to run Matlab
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Re:Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)' by bcj on Monday October 06, 2014 @06:33PM (#8418725)
It was PyObjC.
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