32 OS on 64-bit machine

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "SamG" <mad.vijay at gmail.com> wrote:

> If anyone has a x86_64 machine and is running a 32bit OS on top of
> that.... could you tell me what output would you get for the following
> program
> 
> #======================
> import platform
> print platform.processor()
> print platform.architecture()
> #======================
> 

not copy pasted - the new machine is not on the network yet
the answers look like:
i686
and
('32bit','')

Suse 10 gave me a warning during installation last night...
the machine is an HP Compaq Celeron D

- Hendrik