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?
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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:
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1This answers the questions for the possible values on Linux (and likely Mac which also has `uname`), but what about on Windows? – Aaron Franke Dec 07 '21 at 04:10
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The list you reference is very incomplete and does not fully match with `platform.machine()`. Why is this the accepted answer?! – mara004 Jan 28 '22 at 15:22
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1@mara004 When you submit an answer that is more complete, I will be happy to accept it. – Jonathon Reinhart Jan 28 '22 at 18:14
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I'm not, unfortunately. If I already knew the answer I wouldn't be searching here... – mara004 Jan 29 '22 at 16:24
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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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