[Pythonmac-SIG] machine architecture 32/64 with Python 2.6 on Snow Leopard?

[William Kyngesburye]

If you run the CLI 'uname -m' on any Intel Mac, it always has returned  
i386.  So all it really means is 'Intel'.

On Sep 18, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

> I'm running /usr/bin/python on SL, and
>
>    import platform; print platform.machine()
>
> give me
>
>    i386
>
> But Activity Monitor shows Python as "Intel (64-bit)".
>
> Is this a bug in platform.machine(), or am I misunderstanding what  
> i386
> means?  "platform.architecture()" returns ('64bit', '').
>
> Bill
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