get python bit version as in (32 or 64)

[Vincent Davis]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Philip Semanchuk <philip at semanchuk.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Hexamorph wrote:
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>> On 19.10.2010 23:18, Vincent Davis wrote:
>>> How do I get the bit version of the installed python. In my case, osx
>>> python2.7 binary installed. I know it runs 64 bt as I can see it in
>>> activity monitor. but how do I ask python?
>>> sys.version
>>> '2.7 (r27:82508, Jul  3 2010, 21:12:11) \n[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)]'
>>>
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>> In [1]: import platform
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>> In [2]: platform.architecture()
>> Out[2]: ('32bit', 'ELF')
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>> In [3]:
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> Looks a lot better than my suggestion!
Yes that looks like the right way of doing it. Interesting though that
platform.machine()=i386 and not something about 64.
>>> print platform.machine()
i386
>>> print platform.architecture()
('64bit', '')
>>> import sys; sys.maxint
9223372036854775807

Thanks
Vincent
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