On 5/9/11 3:52 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
I need to find whether a given file is 32-bit or 64-bit (and raise an
exception if the file doesn't exist or isn't an executable file). I
thought platform.architecture() would do this, but it returns ('64bit',
'') no matter what value I assign to the executable parameter (looks
like it uses the given executable to find info on the underlying system
rather than info on the specific file, reverting to sys.executable if
there are any errors).
Actually, that information is built into the Python interpreter when it gets
built. It is not actually examining the file referenced by sys.executable.
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Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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