[Python-ideas] os.architecture

[Paul Moore]

On 29 December 2013 12:15, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:28 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> if os.architecture == 32:
>>   download('http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.1-win32-x86.zip')
>> else:
>>   download('http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.1-win32-x64.zip')
>>
>
> Could you get that info from platform.uname()[4]?

I would have thought so, and more accurately too. An AMD64 executable
won't be much use on SPARC64, no matter that they are both 64-bit -
the OP doesn't have this problem as his example is for Windows (at
least as long as he's happy to ignore old Itanium systems).

I hadn't realised that platform.uname() gave this information on
Windows, but given that it does, it looks like a better solution for
the OP's problem.
Paul