On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 21:11, Gelonida N <gelon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/18/2012 09:07 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 13:22, Gremlin <grem...@armarize.com> wrote: >> >> import platform >> platform.machine() >> >> That will return "AMD64" on 64 bit. I don't have a 32-bit machine >> available but I believe it returns "x86". > This suggestion will not work for the OP. > > It will tell you the platform, for which python was compiled and not the > real platform of the machine you're running on. > > If you installed a 32 bit version of python on a 64 bit machine You will > get 'x86', which would be the wrong answer considering the OP's > requirements.
This is false. platform.machine() is about the the computer itself - I fixed it in 2.6 to function properly, as it used to operate similar to platform.architecture() due to looking in the wrong place. platform.architecture() is about how Python was compiled. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
