I have a 64 bit machine with 64 bit Windows on one side and 64 bit Ubuntu 14 on the other. I am going through some exercises and notice that when I run the following command:
import sys
sys.maxint
I don’t get back the max int for a 64 bit machine and install I get the 32 bit max int. I’m a bit confused and do not know where to start. Maybe it is because I am using the Student License? Works just fine on the Ubuntu side.
The value of sys.maxint depends on the underlying C library. What you are seeing is expected behavior on Windows. See Python sys.maxint, sys.maxunicode on Linux and windows https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-December/504337.html
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