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

[Sam Ferencik]

Sam Ferencik added the comment:

Thanks for the analysis. I agree with you. If there's much push-back, maybe we could introduce an alternative interface, i.e. let get_platform() do its thing, deprecate it, and introduce something like get_interpreter_platform().

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