STINNER Victor <[email protected]> added the comment:
Ok, I closed my PR 11186 which modified architecture() to only return
struct.calcsize('P') if the executable argument is equal to sys.executable.
> please read the doc-string of the platform.architecture() function (or ask
> the person who wrote most of the module). It clearly refers to inspecting a
> specific executable and only uses the Python interpreter as default. The
> running process can provide some sane defaults, but is not necessarily using
> the same values as the given executable.
I see the platform module as a module to get info about the operating system
and Python, but it seems like I misunderstood the purpose of the specific case
of the architecture() function.
I propose a small addition to the doc to avoid confusion:
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11208/files
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