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  Re: Question Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 18:21 +0000

#104240 — Re: Question

On 07/03/2016 17:42, Ian Kelly wrote:
> 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.
>

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

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