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

[Trent Mick]

Manuel Vazquez Acosta wrote:
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> Just test for maxint value:
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> from sys import maxint
> if maxint >> 33:
> 	print "more than 32 bits" # probably 64
> else:
> 	print "32 bits"

I believe that was already suggested in this thread. That test will just 
tell you if the Python *build* is 32-bit or 64-bit. If the answer is 
32-bit, then that doesn't tell you if this is a 32-bit Python running on 
a 64-bit OS.

Trent

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