Determine QGIS version in a startup script that PYQGIS_STARTUP points to

Question

The environment variable (Win10) PYQGIS_STARTUP points to a python script that is executed before QGIS starts (cp. Central deployment of startup.py in QGIS).

Now I need to determine the QGIS version in the python script PYQGIS_STARTUP points to. Of course, this does not work (Answer to Getting user's QGIS version using PyQGIS?):

try:
    from qgis.core import Qgis
except ImportError:
    from qgis.core import QGis as Qgis

if Qgis.QGIS_VERSION_INT >=30000:
    #do something
else:
    #do something else or nothing

resulting in

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'qgis'

Is there another way to determine QGIS version in such script or am I lost?

Answer 1

Workaround: Determine Python version. Since PyQGIS 3 is allways python 3.X we can use:

import sys
if sys.version[0] == '3':
    #do something
elif sys.version[0] == '2':
    #do something else or nothing

cp. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9079036/how-do-i-detect-the-python-version-at-runtime