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r87421 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-12-21 19:49:01 +0100 (mar., 21 déc. 2010) | 4 lines
Suggest sys.maxsize as a reliable way to know whether the interpreter is 64-bit.
(part of #10735)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index b98d992..7802422 100644
--- a/Doc/library/platform.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,16 @@
and then only if the executable points to the Python interpreter. Reasonable
defaults are used when the above needs are not met.
+ .. note::
+
+ On Mac OS X (and perhaps other platforms), executable files may be
+ universal files containing multiple architectures.
+
+ To get at the "64-bitness" of the current interpreter, it is more
+ reliable to query the :attr:`sys.maxsize` attribute::
+
+ is_64bits = sys.maxsize > 2**32
+
.. function:: machine()
@@ -194,7 +204,7 @@
.. note::
- Note: this function works best with Mark Hammond's
+ This function works best with Mark Hammond's
:mod:`win32all` package installed, but also on Python 2.3 and
later (support for this was added in Python 2.6). It obviously
only runs on Win32 compatible platforms.