Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:

I just added a PR that will produce ARM64 releases (as embeddable, nuget and 
Microsoft Store packages).

The only missing feature is tkinter (and everything that depends on it). For 
users who require that, I'd suggest grabbing the x86 installer from python.org 
which works fine (apart from some minor arithmetic and process management bugs 
in the Windows emulation layer).

This is not saying we're going to release it just yet. Really it shouldn't be 
released until 3.9, as it's a new platform and we need to allow the 3rd party 
package ecosystem to catch up, but at least having the ability to build 
packages easily will enable those who are already trying to do it themselves.

Allegedly there's a lot of demand for Python on ARM64, but I haven't actually 
seen it other than this bug. And if that demand immediately extends to numpy or 
pywin32 on ARM64 then we're still a very long way from actually satisfying it.

I'll likely tweak the PR a bit more to prevent releasing ARM64 packages by 
default, but then I don't see any issue having it in the 3.8 and master 
branches for those who would be helped. Any thoughts/comments?

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assignee:  -> steve.dower
versions: +Python 3.9

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