eryk sun wrote: ... > The win-amd64 ABI is significantly different, but at the API level > there isn't a drastic difference between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, so > there's no cognitive burden with perpetuating the Win32 name. The > official API name was actually changed to "Windows API" or WINAPI (or > WinAPI). But it would require a massive effort to change the culture. > There's no pressing need to expend that much time and energy over a > name.
just adding a comment to the documentation that win32 also covers win64 would be a help IMO. for those who are using the startswith syntax and checking for "win" alone then you could change the string returned to "win32-win64" or some other string with the prefix "win" and it would still work with no changes needed. songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
