May 8, 2000
10:15 p.m.
[Trent]
What if someone needs to do something in Python code for either Win32 or Win64 but not both? Or should this never be necessary (not likely). I would like Mark H's opinion on this stuff.
OK :-) I have always thought that it _would_ move to "win64", and the official way of checking for "Windows" will be sys.platform[:3]=="win". In fact, Ive noticed Guido use this idiom (both stand-alone, and as :if sys.platform[:3] in ["win", "mac"]) It will no doubt cause a bit of pain, but IMO it is cleaner... Mark.