Antoine Pitrou added the comment: As a side-note, it is interesting to note that Python currently wrongly identifies 32-bit builds under 64-bit Linux:
Python 3.5.0a0 (default:64a54f0c87d7, Nov 2 2014, 17:18:13) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys, os, sysconfig >>> sys.maxsize 2147483647 >>> os.uname() posix.uname_result(sysname='Linux', nodename='fsol', release='3.16.0-25-generic', version='#33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 4 12:06:54 UTC 2014', machine='x86_64') >>> sysconfig.get_platform() 'linux-x86_64' AFAIU, sysconfig.get_platform() (or its sibling distutils.util.get_platform()) is used for the naming of binary distributions... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22980> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
