Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment: It's only a hack in the sense that platform.architecture is the documented interface in the std library to report "bits" and, unfortunately, users try to use it to determine whether running in 64-bit or 32-bit mode. For instance, see here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/676626
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