> Is there a reliable way to identify 32-bits and 64-bits Windows from within > Python? I have not found any yet, but it might be a mere oversight on my > behalf. > > The reason I ask is that both return win32, which is most likely a reference > to the API, even when having installed the 64 bits Python version. This, of > course, by using win32 causes some issues with, for example, setuptools > since it generate an egg with a win32 identifier. Now if you have Python C > extension code it will be 64-bit compiled, thus not working on 32-bits > Windows.
It seems you don't want to identify whether the Windows installation is a Win64 one, but whether the Python installation is, right? For this, you should use platform.architecture()[0] Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
