idiom to ask if you are on 32 or 64 bit linux platform?

[Jon]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> You can check the size of a void pointer with ctypes:

>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.sizeof(ctypes.c_void_p) * 8

And Matt Nordhoff wrote:

>>> import platform
>>> platform.architecture()

Thanks guys! Exactly what I was after.

-Jon