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diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst index f4ef680..56518f7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/platform.rst +++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst @@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ Cross Platform 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() @@ -186,7 +196,7 @@ Windows Platform .. 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. |