Re: py2exe and 64/32 bit windows

2013-04-09 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Apr 9, 2013 12:53 PM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > > On 2013-04-09, Ian Kelly wrote: > > >> My "Windows partition" currently has a 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate > >> installation. > >> > >> I'm told that the executable I generate on that machine won't run on > >> Win7 32-bit installations. I'm not su

Re: py2exe and 64/32 bit windows

2013-04-09 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Are there any drawbacks to running a 32-bit Python install on a 64-bit > machine? Apart from still being limited to a 2-GB address space, nothing that I'm aware of. > Can you have both 32 and 64 bit Python installed at the same time? Absolu

Re: py2exe and 64/32 bit windows

2013-04-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-04-09, Ian Kelly wrote: >> My "Windows partition" currently has a 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate >> installation. >> >> I'm told that the executable I generate on that machine won't run on >> Win7 32-bit installations. I'm not surprised by that, but I'd like >> to provide 32-bit operability -

Re: py2exe and 64/32 bit windows

2013-04-09 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Disclaimer: I'm a Unix guy and have been since the days of V7 on a > PDP-11 -- I rarely use MS Windows. > > While I don't normally use Windows, I do occasionally have Python > applications (written under Linux) which I'd like to distribute to