[issue10735] platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X multi-architecture executables

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Instead of the platform module, one must resort to hacks like examining 
> sys.maxsize

I'm not sure why you think it's a hack. To me, it's, by construction, the right way to check for 64-bitness (and also the easiest since it doesn't involved parsing of strings of an unspecified format).

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