Re: python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 30 Oct 2015 03:36:36 +1100, Chris Angelico writes: >I don't know what you mean by "natively", but I play a number of >DirectX games on my Debian Linux. Give it a try! You might find that >it all works perfectly. Or, if you develop games, you might not

Re: python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 29/10/2015 17:28, Tim Golden wrote: On 29/10/2015 16:14, Steffen Herzfeldt wrote: I just wanted to let you know that your program just doesn't work on WinXP. I guess you just think "Linux is better anyway" to which i agree until it comes to games requiring directx, but that doesn't change

Re: python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Steffen Herzfeldt wrote: > Hi, > today i downloaded python3.5.0 x86 (win32) installer. > after the programm installed the files into its standard directory without > asking me if i wanted it in a different position, i tried running a program >

Re: python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Tim Golden
On 29/10/2015 16:14, Steffen Herzfeldt wrote: I just wanted to let you know that your program just doesn't work on WinXP. I guess you just think "Linux is better anyway" to which i agree until it comes to games requiring directx, but that doesn't change the fact that the installer was labeled as

python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Steffen Herzfeldt
Hi, today i downloaded python3.5.0 x86 (win32) installer. after the programm installed the files into its standard directory without asking me if i wanted it in a different position, i tried running a program that was written for python 3.3.x the response of my system was an error message

Re: python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:14:25 +0100, "Steffen Herzfeldt" writes: >Hi, >today i downloaded python3.5.0 x86 (win32) installer. >after the programm installed the files into its standard directory without >asking me if i wanted it in a different position, i tried running a program >that

Re: python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Gisle Vanem
Mark Lawrence wrote: CPython's Windows support now follows this lifecycle. A new feature release X.Y.0 will support all Windows releases whose extended support phase is not yet expired. Subsequent bug fix releases will support the same Windows releases as the original feature release (even if

Re: python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:21:14 +0100, Gisle Vanem writes: >Wouldn't it be more elegant of Python (and it's installer) >to put a '-subsystem:console,5.02' in the link flags? >And then detect Win-XP later on and refuse a further install? > >-- >--gv >--

Re: python.exe is not a valid win32 executable

2015-10-29 Thread Terry Reedy
On 10/29/2015 1:14 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: Alas, it is a 'won't fix' for python.org. Maybe Activestate or Continuum.io will support XP with their 3.5 packages, It would be an unpleasant task at best. CPython does not work with xp because is uses shiny new system features that first