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diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst index b98d9926bd..c2b85e6096 100644 --- a/Doc/library/platform.rst +++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst @@ -38,6 +38,16 @@ 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() @@ -98,7 +108,7 @@ Cross Platform .. function:: python_implementation() Returns a string identifying the Python implementation. Possible return values - are: 'CPython', 'IronPython', 'Jython'. + are: 'CPython', 'IronPython', 'Jython', 'PyPy'. .. versionadded:: 2.6 @@ -194,7 +204,7 @@ 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. |