On May 9, 9:52 pm, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to find whether a given file is 32-bit or 64-bit (and raise an
> exception if the file doesn't exist or isn't an executable file). I
> thought platform.architecture() would do this, but it returns ('64bit',
> '') no matter what value I assign to the executable parameter (looks
> like it uses the given executable to find info on the underlying system
> rather than info on the specific file, reverting to sys.executable if
> there are any errors). A quick look on Google doesn't give me anything
> useful. Something cross-platform would be nice, but it really only needs
> to work on Windows (on win32 binaries).I don't know of anything that does that. If you wanted to do it yourself the correct place to start is by reading up on the Protable Executable Format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PE_format. That page has references to the MSDN article which is probably most useful. Other platforms have other executable formats of course but there's no reason it couldn't exist... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
