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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
