On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 06:32:31PM +0530, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > What is the way to check the word size of the platform(OS), and also int > size and character size, are they the same. I searched on line But couldn't > get an answer
You can get some platform details from the platform module: https://docs.python.org/2/library/platform.html but why do you need these details? Python is a high-level object-oriented language, not a low-level language like C, and native machine types aren't very often relevant. For example, Python ints are not the same as native ints, they are "Big Num" objects of unlimited size: py> sys.getsizeof(23) # returns number of bytes used 12 py> sys.getsizeof(2**30000) 4014 Just about the only things I can think of where I might want to know these sorts of low-level platform details can be handled by the struct module: https://docs.python.org/2/library/struct.html If you explain what you want to do in more detail, perhaps we can help with a better answer. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
