On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: > How do I get the bit version of the installed python. In my case, osx > python2.7 binary installed. I know it runs 64 bt as I can see it in > activity monitor. but how do I ask python? > sys.version > '2.7 (r27:82508, Jul 3 2010, 21:12:11) \n[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)]'
I don't think there's an official way to do this. The canonical way appears to be to test the value of sys.maxint and see whether or not it is a 32- or 64-bit long. See here for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1405913/how-do-i-determine-if-my-python-shell-is-executing-in-32bit-or-64bit-mode Cheers Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
