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?
Possible values for platform.machine()
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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.
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