Possible values for platform.machine()
Question:
platform.machine()
Returns the machine type, e.g. ‘i386’. An empty string is returned if the value cannot be determined.
What are the possible values for this field?
Answers:
On platforms with os.uname(), this information comes directly from the result of that API call. That is to say, platform.machine() returns the same thing as the uname -m command.
Thus, the answer really depends on the kernel’s implementation of the uname(2) system call. For that, see this question and answer:
Possible values are listed there. For Unix and Linux based OSs, platform.machine() gives you the same answer than the command uname -m.
For Windows though it’s a bit more complicated. uname doesn’t exist on this platform and though Cygwin gives you the possibility to use uname -m it won’t give you the same result as platform.machine() (respectively x86_64 and AMD64 on my Windows machine).
That’s because of a choice made with the platform module.
platform.machine()
Returns the machine type, e.g. ‘i386’. An empty string is returned if the value cannot be determined.
What are the possible values for this field?
On platforms with os.uname(), this information comes directly from the result of that API call. That is to say, platform.machine() returns the same thing as the uname -m command.
Thus, the answer really depends on the kernel’s implementation of the uname(2) system call. For that, see this question and answer:
Possible values are listed there. For Unix and Linux based OSs, platform.machine() gives you the same answer than the command uname -m.
For Windows though it’s a bit more complicated. uname doesn’t exist on this platform and though Cygwin gives you the possibility to use uname -m it won’t give you the same result as platform.machine() (respectively x86_64 and AMD64 on my Windows machine).
That’s because of a choice made with the platform module.