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

[Larry Bates]

kjhishere 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?
> 
> Thanks, Ken

How about sys.maxint?  64 bit returns 9223372036854775807 on 64-bit
Linux for me.

-Larry