[Python-ideas] os.architecture

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

anatoly techtonik writes:
 > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

 > If Python is about readability then looking at your example, I have
 > two questions:
 > 1. What is platform - hardware, CPU, OS, Python flavor?

Everything you might want in this area.  (Note: 'os' is the wrong
namespace for this.  'os' provides wrappers for OS services, not
platform information.)  In particular

sum-65-1 08:16$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Aug  2 2010, 20:10:18) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import platform
>>> platform.architecture()
('64bit', '')
>>> ^D

Duh.  Watch out for that time machine, Anatoly.

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