William Kyngesburye <wokl...@kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> If you run the CLI 'uname -m' on any Intel Mac, it always has returned
> i386. So all it really means is 'Intel'.
>
> On Sep 18, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > I'm running /usr/bin/python on SL, and
> >
> > import platform; print platform.machine()
> >
> > give me
> >
> > i386
> >
> > But Activity Monitor shows Python as "Intel (64-bit)".
> >
> > Is this a bug in platform.machine(), or am I misunderstanding what
> > i386
> > means? "platform.architecture()" returns ('64bit', '').
Hmmm. So what's the pythonic way of getting i386 vs. x86_64?
{'32bit': 'i386', '64bit': 'x86_64'}[platform.architecture()[0]]
seems so complicated that there should be a routine for it in sys or
platform.
Bill
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