Re: What is the difference between 32 and 64 bit Python on Windows 7 64 bit?

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From	Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu>
Date	Sun, 11 May 2014 05:53:23 -0700
Subject	Re: What is the difference between 32 and 64 bit Python on Windows 7 64 bit?
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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Ross Gayler <r.gayler@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I want to install Python on a PC with 16GB of RAM and the 64 bit version of Windows 7.
> I want Python to be able to use as much as possible of the RAM.
>
> When I install the 64 bit version of Python I find that sys.maxint == 2**31  - 1
> Whereas the Pythpon installed on my 64 bit linux system returns sys.maxint == 2**63 - 1.
>

That comes from the underlying C implementation. 64-bit MSVC still has
long int as 32-bit. You need to specify long long int to get a 64-bit
number even on a 64-bit compiler. Microsoft is a little nuts on the
backwards compatiblity.

> It looks to me as though 32 and 64 bit versions of Python on 64 bit Windows are both really 32 bit Python, differing only in how they interact with Windows. So I wouldn't expect 64 bit Python running on 64 bit Windows to allow the large data struictures I could have with 64 bit Python running on 64 bit linux.
>
> Is that true?I have spent a couple of hours searching for a definitive description of the difference between the 32 and 64 bit versions of Python for Windows and haven't found anything.
>

long int (the size of an integer) != size_t (the size of an object).
64-bit Python still uses 64-bit pointers so it can still address more
than 4GB of memory. It just rolls over into longs after 32-bit int max
instead of after 64-bit int max.

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Re: What is the difference between 32 and 64 bit Python on Windows 7 64 bit? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2014-05-11 05:53 -0700

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