[Python-Dev] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

-On [20080502 08:26], "Martin v. Löwis" (martin at v.loewis.de) wrote:
>It seems you don't want to identify whether the Windows installation is
>a Win64 one, but whether the Python installation is, right?

I think we can say with a reasonably certainty that if the Python
installation is 64-bits the OS is 64-bits too. So yes, if we can identify
the Python installation is 64-bits that would be helpful.

>For this, you should use platform.architecture()[0]

OK, thanks, that's useful, but please see my response to Mark about the why
and why platform.architecture()[0] helps, but not fully though.

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