Re: Question

From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Question
Date	2016-03-07 17:25 +0000
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On 07/03/2016 16:57, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Ben Morales <grupopetra2010@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to download Python but I have windows 10 and I do not see a 64
>> bit download for my operating system. Do you have a 64 bit for windows?
>
> What page are you looking at?
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-351/ has downloads for
> both Windows x86 and Windows x86-64.
>
> The other question is are you sure that 64-bit Python is what you
> want? If your Python is 64-bit then I believe that any extension
> modules you use need to be compiled 64-bit as well. On a 64-bit
> Windows system you can run either 32-bit or 64-bit Python, and AFAIK
> it's more common to use 32-bit Python.
>

I've been running 64 bit Python on Windows for years with no problems. 
Why use 32 bit?  I certainly don't understand why you'd need to.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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