On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com> wrote: > > 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.
Great thanks Vincent > > > > Cheers > Philip > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Thanks Vincent Davis 720-301-3003 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
