What Does sys.platform Return On 64 Bit Windows Systems?

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Wed Mar 17 19:16:55 EDT 2010


Tim Daneliuk schrieb:
> On older 32 bit Windows systems, sys.platform returns:  'win32'
> 
> What does it return on 64-bit Windows systems?  I'd check myself, but
> I don't have access to 64-bit Windows.

Do you want to know if the current build of Python is a 32 or 64bit build?

>>> import struct
>>> struct.calcsize("P") * 8
64

Christian



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