[Distutils] wordlength etc

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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.

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