norseman wrote:
> > I need to know if I'm running on 32bit or 64bit ... so far I haven't
> > come up with how to get this info via python. sys.platform returns
> > what python was built on ... but not what the current system is.
> >
> > I thought platform.uname() or just platform.processor() would have
> > done it, but python returns an empty string on windows. Any ideas?
If just for Windows I believe you can use the "PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE"
environment variable -- at least on NT-based Windows versions.
Values are x86 (32-bit), IA64 (64-bit) and AMD64 (64-bit).
Here is a "platinfo.py" module that might help if you need to do this
for other platforms:
http://svn.openkomodo.com/openkomodo/view/openkomodo/trunk/util/platinfo.py
Cheers,
Trent
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