How do I determine if my python shell is executing in 32bit or 64bit?

Question

I need a way to tell what mode the shell is in from within the shell.

While I\'m primarily an OS X user, I\'d be interested in knowing about other platforms as well.<

Answer 1

On my Centos Linux system I did the following:

1) Started the Python interpreter (I'm using 2.6.6)
2) Ran the following code:

import platform
print(platform.architecture())

and it gave me

(64bit, 'ELF')