How to figure out if the platform is 32bit or 64bit?
David Lees
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Tue Jul 15 21:07:42 EDT 2008
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
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