<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Hi,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Why does the "executable" parameter default to sys.executable? Yesterday I was surprised to see platform.architecture return "32bit" on a 64-bit system, just because a 32-bit Python
interpreter was installed. Wouldn't this make more sense:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>import sys, platform<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>pf = sys.platform.lower()[:3]<br>executable = "iexplore.exe" if pf[:3] == "win" else "/bin/ls"</span></div><div>arch = platform.architecture(executable)[0]<br> <br></div><div>Regards,
<br>Albert-Jan
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