[Python-Dev] Detecting 64bit Windows (was RE: Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Sorry, my bad, yes, the platform.architecture() is helpful, the only problem
> is that I'd rather settle for a sort of standardized nomenclature for this.
> Both platforms use the win32 API, so would Windows XP be win32-32 and x64 be
> win32-64 or something like that?

We settled that the architecture name is amd64. "64" is not enough,
because it can't tell Itanium and AMD64 apart (which are both Win64).

Regards,
Martin