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Subject: Re: Python.exe is not a valid Win32 application error message
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In a message of Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:28:11 -0700, Michael Torrie writes:
>The Python website is looking very professional and polished these days.
> But we still don't have a simple message on the download page telling
>people Windows XP is no longer supported.  Given the number of people
>posting lately (several each week), I would think even with the limited
>time and resources of the python.org webmaster a little warning message
>would be in order.  Even when the installer is fixed, it would still be
>nice to have basic OS requirements listed before the download is ever
>clicked.

It's not webmaster, who is receiving as many of these requests
as python-list, but the pydotorg team.  There is a request in to
get this changed, it just hasn̈́t happened yet.

Laura