On Sep 18, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
William Kyngesburye <wokl...@kyngchaos.com> wrote:
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', '').
Hmmm. So what's the pythonic way of getting i386 vs. x86_64?
{'32bit': 'i386', '64bit': 'x86_64'}[platform.architecture()[0]]
seems so complicated that there should be a routine for it in sys or
platform.
I don't know the "official" way, but what I do is:
% python -c 'import sys;print sys.maxint'
9223372036854775807
% env VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=1 python -c 'import sys;print
sys.maxint'
2147483647
So I would look at sys.maxint to determine if python is running 32 or
64-bit.
Ed
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