In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
dwelch91 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to detect whether the operating system I am running on (not the
>Python version) is 64bit or 32bit. One requirement is that I need to
>include support for non-Intel/AMD architectures.
>
>The 2 ways I have thought detecting 64bit are:
>
>1. struct.calcsize("P") == 8
>2. '64' in os.uname()[4]
>
>I'm not convinced that either one of these is really adequate. Does
>anybody have any other ideas on how to do this?
Does sys.maxint give what you need?
I think for most machines this will give you the answer you are
looking for - either 2**31 -1 for a 32 bit version or 2**63-1 for a 64
bit version. It's set up during the configure phase of building python
If you want to detect a 64bit OS running a compatibility mode for a 32
bit version of Python, then you'll need to figure out how to build and
incorporate a Python extension which can detect this situation
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