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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

It seems to be easier to find 32-bit binaries for libraries. For
example, the official Windows build of pygame is only 32-bit. If
64-bit only works for you though, then by all means use it.