New submission from Marc Culler: On macOS, the 32 bit python 2.7 reports its architecture as '64bit' in platform.architecture(). Note that the 32 bit Python versions 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 all correctly report '32bit'.
$ python-32 Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 12:39:47) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import platform >>> platform.architecture()[0] '64bit' >>> import sys >>> sys.maxsize > 2**32 False ---------- components: macOS messages: 288200 nosy: culler, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Python2.7-32 misreports architecture on macOS. versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29605> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
