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

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Sat May 3 02:27:42 CEST 2008

> OK - I'll make a patch for this tomorrow (unless someone pipes up > suggesting it's not a great idea, or that ctypes should be used, etc)

I'd like to pipe that up.

I thought you might.

It sounds like clutter of the sys module to me.

Fair enough - but no more than getwindowsversion IMO (and it seems it would be used in similar situations to getwindowsversion, in terms of wanting to know fundamental characteristics of the OS.) But I don't personally care - although I added this to pywin32 some time ago, I decided to wait for someone else to request it before submitting it for inclusion in the core.

Isn't there some environment variable you can look at? Some registry key?

Not that I'm aware of.

I've uploaded my patch as http://bugs.python.org/issue2745, and I've taken the liberty of adding you to the nosy list, incase you wish to reject it outright (but I'm likely to assume silence for a few weeks on a tracker issue means no serious objections - at least none so serious they can't be rectified by reverting the change)

Cheers,

Mark

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