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Author ned.deily
Recipients lemburg, ned.deily, pitrou, ronaldoussoren
Date 2010-12-19.13:49:08
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It's only a hack in the sense that platform.architecture is the documented interface in the std library to report "bits" and, unfortunately, users try to use it to determine whether running in 64-bit or 32-bit mode.  For instance, see here:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/676626
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2010-12-19 13:49:09ned.deilysetrecipients: + ned.deily, lemburg, ronaldoussoren, pitrou
2010-12-19 13:49:09ned.deilysetmessageid: <1292766549.81.0.488350728799.issue10735@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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