On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:45 AM, David Cournapeau <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> No, the architecture is given by platform.machine() so you have it already, >> by combining a test with sys.platform. > > But platform.machine() returns a 32 bits machine if you run 32 bits > python on 64 bits windows. AFAIK, the only reliable way is to use the > win32 API: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/02/01/364563.aspx > > In scons (where we limit ourself to pure python code ATM), we tried the > registry, but this is not reliable (some braindead softwares install > WoW64 registry keys even on 32 bits windows). OTOH, I guess not that > many applications need this information: after all, the whole point of > WoW64 is to virtualize 32 bits applications so that they believe to run > on a conventional 32 bits python.
There's something unclear for me here : What is suppose to happen when you use Python 32bits on a 64bits machine, for Python distributions that get build or installed ? Do you end up in a mixed environment of 64bits distributions within a 32bits interpreter ? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
