You see the same thing in Linux. sys.platform returns the same
value whether you are on a 32-bit Linux system or a 64-bit Linux
system. That’s almost always what you want, because the APIs are
identical.
If you need to know whether you are currently running in a 32-bit or
a 64-bit process, there are better ways, like sys.maxsize or
platform.machine().
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Boštjan Mejak wrote:
Why does the Python command sys.platform on
64-bit Windows 10 Home, running 64-bit Python 3.4.3, return win32
and not win64?
I don’t understand. Is that a bug in Python?
-- Tim Roberts, Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.