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

[Gary Josack]

Trent Mick wrote:
> Manuel Vazquez Acosta wrote:
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>> Just test for maxint value:
>>
>> from sys import maxint
>> if maxint >> 33:
>>     print "more than 32 bits" # probably 64
>> else:
>>     print "32 bits"
>
> I believe that was already suggested in this thread. That test will 
> just tell you if the Python *build* is 32-bit or 64-bit. If the answer 
> is 32-bit, then that doesn't tell you if this is a 32-bit Python 
> running on a 64-bit OS.
>
> Trent
>
have you tried platform.architecture()?