[issue18987] distutils.utils.get_platform() for 32-bit Python on a 64-bit machine

[Sam Ferencik]

Sam Ferencik added the comment:

Well, the maintainers of Mac OS didn't consider it a won't fix - and have this working properly. I don't see why we couldn't try to copy what they did.

Actually, I think the impact of changing this for 32-bit Python on 64-bit Linux should be quite small, no?

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