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Author	pitrou
Recipients	lemburg, ned.deily, pitrou, ronaldoussoren
Date	2010-12-19.13:35:56
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Message-id	<1292765758.05.0.185651069746.issue10735@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Instead of the platform module, one must resort to hacks like examining > sys.maxsize I'm not sure why you think it's a hack. To me, it's, by construction, the right way to check for 64-bitness (and also the easiest since it doesn't involved parsing of strings of an unspecified format).

> Instead of the platform module, one must resort to hacks like examining 
> sys.maxsize

I'm not sure why you think it's a hack. To me, it's, by construction, the right way to check for 64-bitness (and also the easiest since it doesn't involved parsing of strings of an unspecified format).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-12-19 13:35:58	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, lemburg, ronaldoussoren, ned.deily
2010-12-19 13:35:58	pitrou	set	messageid: <1292765758.05.0.185651069746.issue10735@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-12-19 13:35:56	pitrou	link	issue10735 messages
2010-12-19 13:35:56	pitrou	create