how to determine Mac OS X version

I tried platform.mac_ver(), but this
seems to be broken. Google turns up various bug reports on this function.

I can use the shell command system_profiler
on 10.3 but it's too slow on 10.2. We still have lots of machines running
10.2, and it will be several months before they can all be upgraded.

sysctl doesn't have a variable for this,
only for the Darwin version.

Does anybody know a way to do this using
Python or calling an outside shell command? I'd like something that will
work for both 10.2 and 10.3 without having to install additional Python
modules.

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