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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:33:16 +0100
From: Philip Reynolds <phil@brassy.net>
To: "comp.lang.python" <python-list@python.org>
Subject: Re: Question- Getting Windows 64bits information Python 32bits
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2011, Andrew Berg wrote:

> On 2011.07.07 10:21 AM, António Rocha wrote:
> > I'm running Python (32b) in Windows7 (at 64bits) and I would like to
> > know how can I check if my machine is a 32b or 64b in Python. Is it
> > possible? I saw a few examples (like platform) but they only provide
> > information about Python not the machine.
> os.environ['processor_architecture']
> 
> os.environ is a dictionary of system environment variables. That exact
> key probably only exists on Windows, but I'm there is a similar key on
> other platforms.

$ python -c 'import platform; print platform.architecture()'
('64bit', 'ELF')

  http://docs.python.org/library/platform.html

Phil.