Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Mark Lawrence Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Question Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:21:32 +0000 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de kiNOuN4QRm2eduhbDFutIgaIh3t1sc2O4WiUf6hYTJ4A== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'subject:Question': 0.05; 'x86': 0.07; 'libraries.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'python.': 0.11; "hasn't": 0.15; '2016': 0.16; '6th': 0.16; 'binaries': 0.16; 'pygame': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'x86-64.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'stick': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; '>>>': 0.20; 'windows': 0.20; 'extension': 0.20; '3.2': 0.22; '64-bit': 0.22; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'trying': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'bit': 0.23; 'seems': 0.23; 'url:edu': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.24; 'mon,': 0.24; 'url:download': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'question': 0.27; '32-bit': 0.29; 'certainly': 0.30; "i'd": 0.31; 'compiled': 0.32; 'language.': 0.32; 'though,': 0.32; 'run': 0.33; 'url:python': 0.33; 'common': 0.33; 'url:downloads': 0.33; '2009': 0.34; 'running': 0.34; 'gives': 0.35; 'downloads': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'modules': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'operating': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'means': 0.39; 'why': 0.39; 'goes': 0.39; 'sure': 0.39; 'system.': 0.39; 'build': 0.40; 'well.': 0.40; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'more': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'mar': 0.65; 'believe': 0.66; 'august': 0.75; 'morales': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'download.': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.234.129.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:104240 On 07/03/2016 17:42, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 07/03/2016 16:57, Ian Kelly wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Ben Morales >>> 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. > As http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml hasn't been updated since August 6th 2009 and only goes up to Python 3.2 I'd stick with http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame which gives a 64 bit 3.5 download. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence