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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