[Distutils] wordlength etc

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Robin Becker wrote:
> In article <3EFF188F.3020607 at lemburg.com>, M.-A. Lemburg
> <mal at 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.

sizeofint = len(struct.pack('i',1))

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