platform.architecture()

platform.architecture() is a Python function in the Platform Module category. Returns (bitness, linkage) tuple for the Python interpreter. The syntax is platform.architecture(executable=sys.executable, bits="", linkage=""). Returns: (bits, linkage) tuple. A typical example: platform.architecture() # ("64bit", "ELF"). A close sibling is platform.system(), which returns the OS/system name (Linux, Windows, Darwin, Java). A close sibling is platform.release(), which returns the system release version. A close sibling is platform.version(), which returns the system version string. A close sibling is platform.machine(), which returns the machine type (x86_64, arm64, etc.). More about this category: System platform info — system, release, python_version, uname. Related Platform Module entries: platform.system(), platform.release(), platform.version(), platform.machine(), platform.processor(), platform.python_version(). This page is part of the free Python Reference documentation covering 978+ functions, methods, and modules with examples and parameter details. You can try platform.architecture() immediately in the Python playground, look up unfamiliar terms in the glossary, or return to the Python Reference homepage.