June 29, 2003
6 p.m.
In article <3EFF188F.3020607@lemburg.com>, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> writes
Robin Becker wrote:
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. -- Robin Becker