If you run the CLI 'uname -m' on any Intel Mac, it always has returned
i386. So all it really means is 'Intel'.
On Sep 18, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
I'm running /usr/bin/python on SL, and
import platform; print platform.machine()
give me
i386
But Activity Monitor shows Python as "Intel (64-bit)".
Is this a bug in platform.machine(), or am I misunderstanding what
i386
means? "platform.architecture()" returns ('64bit', '').
Bill
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