To help me understand the significance of win64 vs. win32, can you list the major differences? I thought that the main thing was that pointers are 64 bits, and that otherwise the APIs are the same. In fact, I don't know if WIN64 refers to Windows running on 64-bit machines (e.g. Alphas) only, or that it is possible to have win64 on a 32-bit machine (e.g. Pentium). If it's mostly a matter of pointer size, this is almost completely hidden at the Python level, and I don't think it's worth changing the plaform name. All of the changes that Trent found were really tests for the presence of Windows APIs like the registry... I could defend calling it Windows in comments but having sys.platform be "win32". Like uname on Solaris 2.7 returns SunOS 5.7 -- there's too much old code that doesn't deserve to be broken. (And it's not like we have an excuse that it was always documented this way -- this wasn't documented very clearly at all...) It's-spelt-Raymond-Luxury-Yach-t-but-it's-pronounced-Throatwobbler-Mangrove, --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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