[issue23037] cpu_count() unreliable on Windows

[Mark Summerfield]

New submission from Mark Summerfield:

In message
http://bugs.python.org/issue17914#msg188626
Victor Stenner says

"On Windows, GetSystemInfo() is called instead of reading an environment variable. I suppose that this function is more reliable."

>From my reading, and based on feedback from one of my customers, I believe he is correct and that GetSystemInfo() ought to be used on Windows. (It is available in pywin32 win32api.)

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components: Library (Lib), Windows
messages: 232540
nosy: mark, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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