Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/22/2019 7:55 AM, songbird wrote: >> 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. > > Could you open an issue on the tracker suggesting a specific edit at a > specific place?
i don't want to create yet another account to file a bug/issue, but the specific place in the docs is: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html?highlight=sys%20platform#sys.platform songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
