On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 07/03/2016 16:57, Ian Kelly wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Ben Morales <grupopetra2...@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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
