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Author	eryksun
Recipients	Liran Ringel, eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2017-01-02.07:49:02
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Message-id	<1483343342.51.0.110463973625.issue29124@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Using platform.architecture [1] is fine here. `bits` defaults to the size of a pointer in the current process, i.e. `struct.calcsize('P') * 8`. On Windows, it's useless for anything except the default parameters. It doesn't call GetBinaryType [2] to distinguish 32-bit and 64-bit executables, so from a 64-bit process it will incorrectly return that a 32-bit executable is 64-bit. [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/platform.html#platform.architecture [2]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364819

Using platform.architecture [1] is fine here. `bits` defaults to the size of a pointer in the current process, i.e. `struct.calcsize('P') * 8`. 

On Windows, it's useless for anything except the default parameters. It doesn't call GetBinaryType [2] to distinguish 32-bit and 64-bit executables, so from a 64-bit process it will incorrectly return that a 32-bit executable is 64-bit.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/platform.html#platform.architecture
[2]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364819

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-01-02 07:49:02	eryksun	set	recipients: + eryksun, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower, Liran Ringel
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