Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Christophe wrote: > > > To be exact, you need a 64bit Windows OS on a 64bit cpu. > > Is there a reason that can be explained in a less-than-2-KB > posting? :) I mean why Python depends on the processor type that > much. >
Python doesn't depend on the processor type in any sense that I understand "depend". Like many other large C applications, Python code makes heavy use of the C preprocessor to cater for differences in operating systems, runtime libraries, complier idio[syncra]cies, and (probably least importantly) processor differences. One corpus of source code can be used to create binaries for a large number of different combinations of operating systems and processors. For just one processor (the AMD64), you could have at least 4 different binaries: (Windows/Linux) x (32|64) bit version of the OS. HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
