> Sorry, my bad, yes, the platform.architecture() is helpful, the only problem > is that I'd rather settle for a sort of standardized nomenclature for this. > Both platforms use the win32 API, so would Windows XP be win32-32 and x64 be > win32-64 or something like that?
We settled that the architecture name is amd64. "64" is not enough, because it can't tell Itanium and AMD64 apart (which are both Win64). 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