Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; '(at': 0.03; 'python.': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'python': 0.08; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'underlying': 0.09; 'variables.': 0.09; 'examples': 0.12; 'am,': 0.13; 'wrote:': 0.15; 'enigma': 0.16; 'kern': 0.16; 'os.environ': 0.16; 'platform)': 0.16; '>>>': 0.16; 'exists': 0.19; 'subject:Windows': 0.19; '(like': 0.21; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'dictionary': 0.23; 'platforms.': 0.23; 'compiled': 0.23; 'subject:Question': 0.25; 'subject:information': 0.25; "i'm": 0.27; 'thu,': 0.28; 'interpret': 0.29; 'possible?': 0.29; 'environment': 0.29; 'subject:Getting': 0.30; 'url:library': 0.31; 'print': 0.32; 'andrew': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.34; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.34; 'received:24': 0.34; 'there': 0.34; 'executable': 0.35; 'machine': 0.35; 'probably': 0.35; 'running': 0.35; 'similar': 0.37; 'url:python': 0.37; 'but': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'url:org': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'header:Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'received:rr.com': 0.39; 'url:docs': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'skip:o 30': 0.63; 'our': 0.63; 'saw': 0.64; 'world': 0.65; 'believe': 0.66; 'exact': 0.69; '10:21': 0.84; '11:33': 0.84; 'reynolds': 0.84; 'eco': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Robert Kern Subject: Re: Question- Getting Windows 64bits information Python 32bits Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:43:55 -0500 Organization: The Church of Last Thursday References: <4E15D4F0.5040408@gmail.com> <20110707163315.GA14053@brassy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-24-227-244-203.sw.biz.rr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <20110707163315.GA14053@brassy.net> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1310057059 news.xs4all.nl 21879 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:38528 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:9039 On 7/7/11 11:33 AM, Philip Reynolds wrote: > 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 This is not what the OP is looking for. The OP wants to know what the CPU and OS are capable of, not what the Python executable is compiled for. platform.architecture() gives the latter. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco