How to figure out if the platform is 32bit or 64bit?

[David Lees]

kjhishere at gmail.com wrote:
> I need to know if I'm running on 32bit or 64bit ... so far I haven't
> come up with how to get this info via python. sys.platform returns
> what python was built on ... but not what the current system is.
> 
> I thought platform.uname() or just platform.processor() would have
> done it, but python returns an empty string on windows. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks, Ken

On my windows box this works:

 >>> platform.architecture()
('32bit', 'WindowsPE')


David