[Python-Dev] Detecting 64bit Windows (was RE: Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 2 19:47:21 CEST 2008

Sorry, my bad, yes, the platform.architecture() is helpful, the only problem is that I'd rather settle for a sort of standardized nomenclature for this. Both platforms use the win32 API, so would Windows XP be win32-32 and x64 be win32-64 or something like that?

We settled that the architecture name is amd64. "64" is not enough, because it can't tell Itanium and AMD64 apart (which are both Win64).

Regards, Martin

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