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Unfortunately, it's difficult for the core devs to know every hardware and
os combination there is. Maybe you could submit a bug report?
On Mar 7, 2016 10:56 AM, "Jon Ribbens" <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2016-03-07, mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
> > On 07/03/2016 18:09, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> >> It only appears to have downloads for 32-bit, or 64-bit AMD processors,
> >> not 64-bit Intel processors.
> >
> > You didn't read the bit that says
> >
> > "The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the
> > Intel 64 architecture. (Also known as the "x64" architecture, and
> > formerly known as both "EM64T" and "x86-64".) "
>
> You are quite correct that I did not read the whole of the
> ridiculously-long and badly-organised download page.
>
> I would strongly suggest that, at the very least, the 'Description'
> for the x86-64 files should say "for all 64-bit PCs (except Itanium*)"
> with the '*' linking to a footnote that explains how to tell if you
> have one of those.
>
> I must say that Python on Windows was a very poor experience indeed,
> "virtualenv" does not work and "venv" refuses to create the 'activate'
> shell script so does not work either (and pygame doesn't work, but
> that's presumably not Python's fault).
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