Architectures

Each architecture represents a CPU instruction set, and is associated with:

• a unique architecture ID

• a human-readable name

• an icon (emoji / unicode character)

• a detection function

• various metadata in its info() method

Each architecture is materialized by an Architecture object, from which you can access various metadata:

>>> from extra_platforms import X86_64
>>> X86_64
Architecture(id='x86_64', name='x86-64 (AMD64)')
>>> X86_64.id
'x86_64'
>>> X86_64.current
True
>>> X86_64.info()
{'id': 'x86_64', 'name': 'x86-64 (AMD64)', 'icon': '💻', 'url': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64', 'current': True, 'machine': None, 'processor': None}

To check if the current architecture matches a specific architecture, use the corresponding detection function:

>>> from extra_platforms import is_x86_64
>>> is_x86_64()
True

The current architecture can be obtained via the current_architecture() function:

>>> from extra_platforms import current_architecture
>>> current_architecture()
Architecture(id='x86_64', name='x86-64 (AMD64)')

Recognized architectures

Icon	Name	ID	Detection function
🔋	ARM64 (AArch64)	aarch64	is_aarch64()
📱	ARM (32-bit)	arm	is_arm()
📱	ARMv6 (little-endian)	armv6l	is_armv6l()
📱	ARMv7 (little-endian)	armv7l	is_armv7l()
📱	ARMv8 (32-bit, little-endian)	armv8l	is_armv8l()
🔲	Intel 80386 (i386)	i386	is_i386()
🔲	Intel Pentium (i586)	i586	is_i586()
🔲	Intel Pentium Pro (i686)	i686	is_i686()
🐉	LoongArch (64-bit)	loongarch64	is_loongarch64()
🔧	MIPS (32-bit, big-endian)	mips	is_mips()
🔧	MIPS64 (big-endian)	mips64	is_mips64()
🔧	MIPS64 (little-endian)	mips64el	is_mips64el()
🔧	MIPS (32-bit, little-endian)	mipsel	is_mipsel()
⚡	PowerPC (32-bit)	ppc	is_ppc()
⚡	PowerPC 64-bit (big-endian)	ppc64	is_ppc64()
⚡	PowerPC 64-bit (little-endian)	ppc64le	is_ppc64le()
🌱	RISC-V (32-bit)	riscv32	is_riscv32()
🌱	RISC-V (64-bit)	riscv64	is_riscv64()
🏢	IBM z/Architecture (s390x)	s390x	is_s390x()
☀️	SPARC (32-bit)	sparc	is_sparc()
☀️	SPARC (64-bit)	sparc64	is_sparc64()
❓	Unknown architecture	unknown_architecture	is_unknown_architecture()
🌐	WebAssembly (32-bit)	wasm32	is_wasm32()
🌐	WebAssembly (64-bit)	wasm64	is_wasm64()
💻	x86-64 (AMD64)	x86_64	is_x86_64()

Groups of architectures

All recognized architectures are grouped in families, with each architecture belonging to exactly one family.

Here are the non-overlapping families that encompass all recognized architectures, visualized as a Sankey diagram:

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

ALL_ARCHITECTURES,ANY_ARM,5
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,X86,4
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,ANY_MIPS,4
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,POWERPC,3
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,WEBASSEMBLY,2
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,RISCV,2
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,ANY_SPARC,2
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,LOONGARCH,1
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,IBM_MAINFRAME,1
ANY_ARM,aarch64,1
ANY_ARM,arm,1
ANY_ARM,armv6l,1
ANY_ARM,armv7l,1
ANY_ARM,armv8l,1
X86,i386,1
X86,i586,1
X86,i686,1
X86,x86_64,1
ANY_MIPS,mips,1
ANY_MIPS,mips64,1
ANY_MIPS,mips64el,1
ANY_MIPS,mipsel,1
POWERPC,ppc,1
POWERPC,ppc64,1
POWERPC,ppc64le,1
WEBASSEMBLY,wasm32,1
WEBASSEMBLY,wasm64,1
RISCV,riscv32,1
RISCV,riscv64,1
ANY_SPARC,sparc,1
ANY_SPARC,sparc64,1
LOONGARCH,loongarch64,1
IBM_MAINFRAME,s390x,1
ALL_ARCHITECTURES,unknown_architecture,1
    

And the same families visualized as a mindmap:

        ---
config:
  mindmap:
    padding: 5

---
mindmap
    ((🏛️ all_architectures))
        )🔲 X86(
            (🔲 i386)
            (🔲 i586)
            (🔲 i686)
            (💻 x86_64)
        )🌐 WEBASSEMBLY(
            (🌐 wasm32)
            (🌐 wasm64)
        )🌱 RISCV(
            (🌱 riscv32)
            (🌱 riscv64)
        )⚡ POWERPC(
            (⚡ ppc)
            (⚡ ppc64)
            (⚡ ppc64le)
        )🐉 LOONGARCH(
            (🐉 loongarch64)
        )🏢 IBM_MAINFRAME(
            (🏢 s390x)
        )☀️ ANY_SPARC(
            (☀️ sparc)
            (☀️ sparc64)
        )🔧 ANY_MIPS(
            (🔧 mips)
            (🔧 mips64)
            (🔧 mips64el)
            (🔧 mipsel)
        )📱 ANY_ARM(
            (🔋 aarch64)
            (📱 arm)
            (📱 armv6l)
            (📱 armv7l)
            (📱 armv8l)
        (❓ unknown_architecture)
    

Individual architecture families

Icon	Group ID	Description	Member count	Non-overlapping
🏛️	all_architectures	All architectures	25	⚠️
📱	any_arm	Any ARM architecture	5	✅
🔧	any_mips	Any MIPS architecture	4	✅
☀️	any_sparc	Any SPARC architecture	2	✅
🏢	ibm_mainframe	IBM mainframe	1	✅
🐉	loongarch	LoongArch	1	✅
⚡	powerpc	PowerPC family	3	✅
🌱	riscv	RISC-V family	2	✅
🌐	webassembly	WebAssembly	2	✅
🔲	x86	x86 family	4	✅

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

ANY_ARM,aarch64,1
ANY_ARM,arm,1
ANY_ARM,armv6l,1
ANY_ARM,armv7l,1
ANY_ARM,armv8l,1
    

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

ANY_MIPS,mips,1
ANY_MIPS,mips64,1
ANY_MIPS,mips64el,1
ANY_MIPS,mipsel,1
    

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

ANY_SPARC,sparc,1
ANY_SPARC,sparc64,1
    

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

IBM_MAINFRAME,s390x,1
    

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

LOONGARCH,loongarch64,1
    

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

POWERPC,ppc,1
POWERPC,ppc64,1
POWERPC,ppc64le,1
    

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

RISCV,riscv32,1
RISCV,riscv64,1
    

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

WEBASSEMBLY,wasm32,1
WEBASSEMBLY,wasm64,1
    

        ---
config:
  sankey:
    height: 800
    showValues: false
    width: 800

---
sankey-beta

X86,i386,1
X86,i586,1
X86,i686,1
X86,x86_64,1
    

extra_platforms.architecture API

        classDiagram
  Trait <|-- Architecture
    

CPU architectures.

class extra_platforms.architecture.Architecture(id, name, icon='▣', url='')

Bases: Trait

A CPU architecture identifies a processor instruction set.

It has a unique ID, a human-readable name, and boolean to flag current architecture.

icon: str = '▣'

Icon of the architecture.

info()

Returns all architecture attributes we can gather.

Return type:

dict[str, str | bool | None]

extra_platforms.architecture_data API

Architecture definitions and metadata.

See also

Architecture variants from Rust’s target-lexicon.