On Jun 19, 4:28 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 19, 9:17 pm, Kai Rosenthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > how can I determine the architecture (32 or 64bit) with python 2.2 on > > Windows or Unix (AIX, Solaris) OS, without the modul platform? > > Thanks for your hints, Kai > > What happens when you fire up a 64-bit Python and type > import sys; sys.maxint > at it?
That's not suitable, because of the differences between LP64 and LLP64 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#64-bit_data_models ). Try python -c "import struct; print struct.calcsize('P')" instead. That calculates the size of a pointer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
