[Numpy-discussion] How to tell whether I am using 32 bit or 64 bit numpy?

Charles R Harris charlesr.harris at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 07:16:54 EDT 2009


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:01 AM, John Reid <j.reid at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk>wrote:

> I imagine I'm using 64 bit numpy as I made a vanilla install from recent
> source on a 64 bit box but how can I tell for sure? I have some problems
> creating large arrays.
>

What platform are you on? I'm guessing Mac. You can check python on unix
type systems with

$[charris at f9 ~]$ file `which python`
/usr/bin/python: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped

Chuck
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