[python-win32] How do I detect a 64 bit version of Windows?

[Gelonida N]

On 02/19/2012 08:20 AM, Brian Curtin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 21:11, Gelonida N <gelonida at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 02/18/2012 09:07 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 13:22, Gremlin <gremlin at armarize.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> import platform
>>> platform.machine()
>>>
>>> That will return "AMD64" on 64 bit. I don't have a 32-bit machine
>>> available but I believe it returns "x86".
>> This suggestion will not work for the OP.
>>
>> It will tell you the platform, for which python was compiled and not the
>> real platform of the machine you're running on.
>>
>> If you installed a 32 bit version of python on a 64 bit machine You will
>> get 'x86', which would be the wrong answer considering the OP's
>> requirements.
> 
> This is false.
> 
> platform.machine() is about the the computer itself - I fixed it in
> 2.6 to function properly, as it used to operate similar to
> platform.architecture() due to looking in the wrong place.
> platform.architecture() is about how Python was compiled.

Hmmm.
 I use python 2.6.4 on a 64 bit machine and get 'x86' as result.
perhaps it's only fixed in the newer 2.6 releases?