Re: [Distutils] wordlength etc

In article 3EFF188F.3020607@lemburg.com, M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com writes

Robin Becker wrote:

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Are there standard ways to determine things like wordlength etc in distutils?

I suppose one can use sys.maxint, but I thought this might be a standard kind of requirement now that we're slipping from 32 to 64 bits.

I'd use the struct module for these things.

So we assume struct units are 8 bits and then use calcsize("i")*8 as the wordlength.