On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:37:15 +0000, Dave Angel wrote: > You can run a 32bit Python on 64bit OS, but not the oter way > around. And most people just match the bitness of Python against the > bitness of the OS.
AFAICT, most people run 32-bit Python on any version of Windows. [And this isn't limited to Python; most of the software on my Win64 system is 32-bit. And most of the 64-bit software is accounted for by software which has to be 64-bit due to containing device drivers, shell extensions or similar.] Any add-on package which provides pre-compiled binaries will provide 32-bit binaries. Some of them will also provide 64-bit binaries, some of them won't. So unless you think that you might need to use more than 3-4 GiB of RAM for a single Python process, or you need to use certain libraries which are only available as 64-bit, getting the 32-bit version is typically the safest option. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
