How to figure out if the platform is 32bit or 64bit?

[John Machin]

On Jul 16, 6:10 am, kjhish... at gmail.com wrote:
> I need to know if I'm running on 32bit or 64bit ... so far I haven't
> come up with how to get this info via python. sys.platform returns
> what python was built on ... but not what the current system is.
>
> I thought platform.uname() or just platform.processor() would have
> done it, but python returns an empty string on windows. Any ideas?
>

>>> import sys
>>> hex(sys.maxint)
'0x7fffffff'
>>> x = sys.maxint
>>> n = 1
>>> while x:
...    n += 1
...    x >>= 1
...
>>> n
32

WARNING: Assumes nobody will be silly enough to build a machine with
ones-complement integers in future :-)