[Distutils] wordlength etc

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 14:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>>>So we assume struct units are 8 bits and then use calcsize("i")*8 as the
>>>wordlength.
>>
>>sizeofint = len(struct.pack('i',1))
> 
> Why not
> 
> sizeofint = struct.calcsize("i")
> 
> ?

Even better :-)

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