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Re: Windows 32-bit Python 3.5 Install Failure

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In a message of Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:39:19 +0100, Ben Thompson writes:
>Hi,
>
>I just tried using the 32-bit Python 3.5 installer for Windows from 
>python.org. The program seemed to run OK, I ticked the path box but 
>there seems to be no working python 3.5 on my (32-bit, XP) computer. The 
>screenshot shows that python 2.7 is still installed, path contains 
>Python 3 (albeit it a weird place) but if I give the full path to what I 
>assume is the Python 3.5 binary, I get a window telling me that the 
>program is not a valid application.
>
>My guess is that what is advertised as a 32-binary installer actually 
>installed a 64-bit version (because the error message described above is 
>what I get if I try and run a 64-bit binary). To check that I had not 
>accidentally downloaded the wrong installer I checked: I downloaded and 
>ran python-3.5.0.exe not python-3.5.0-amd64.exe.

Your problem is that 3.5 does not run on XP at all.  There is a bug
fix going in to tell XP users this when they try to install 3.5 and
later.  python.org has given up support of XP for 3.5 and later releases.

Laura

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Re: Windows 32-bit Python 3.5 Install Failure Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-07 11:48 +0200

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