David Rushby wrote: > 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. >
How about: tuple.__itemsize__ since each tuple item is a pointer. -- Lenard Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
