[issue18987] distutils.utils.get_platform() for 32-bit Python on a 64-bit machine

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Hello,

> To discover a 32-bit interpreter running on a 64-bit system, we could
> use
> platform.architecture(), which returns
>     >>> platform.architecture()
>     ('32bit', 'ELF')

Just use (sys.maxsize < 2**32).

> What then, though? How do you turn '32bit' to 'linux-i386'?

I don't know. How does distutils normally do? :-)

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title: distutils.utils.get_platform() for 32-bit Python on a 64-bit machine -> distutils.utils.get_platform() for 32-bit Python on a	64-bit machine

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