Hi I am running Windows XP, on 32bit. How do I install python? When I run the installation file, it gives me an error saying "installation package not supported by processor type" does python need 64 bit to execute?
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No it doesn't require 64-bit. The download page has both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
Dean Harding
2010-03-30 05:59:06
Should probably mention that the top one is 32-bit and the X86-64 one is the 64-bit version. Neither one directly says 32-bit or 64-bit.
musicfreak
2010-03-30 06:02:28
@musicfreak: Good point.
Dean Harding
2010-03-30 06:03:15
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Your 32-bit options (for Windows) include ActivePython 2.6.5 and ActivePython 3.1.2 (ActivePython comes with some extras in addition to the standard python.org release), plain Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2, and commercial solutions such as Enthought Python (ActiveState also offers commercial options, but the ones I pointed to are the free "community editions" -- python.org's offerings are also gratis, of course).
Alex Martelli
2010-03-30 06:12:43
When I install Python on Windows, I always go for ActiveState's distributions, which include pywin32, which allows me to use COM and to access the win32 API.
Mike Graham
2010-03-30 06:35:51
@Mike, yep, that's a substantial part of what I meant by "some extras";-).
Alex Martelli
2010-03-30 06:37:25
@Mike - ActivePython also comes with a *binary* package manager of its own. http://pypm.activestate.com (which makes it easy to install non-trivial packages like MySQLdb or numpy/scipy)
Sridhar Ratnakumar
2010-05-27 18:27:44