[Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Stephan Houben <stephanh42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> FWIW, I got the following statement from here:
>
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Numerical-software-on-Windows
>
> "Standard numpy and scipy binary releases on Windows use pre-compiled ATLAS
> libraries and are 32-bit only because of the difficulty of compiling ATLAS
> on 64-bit Windows. "
>
> Might want to double-check with the numpy folks; it would
> be too bad if numpy wouldn't work on the preferred Windows Python.

That's out of date -- official numpy releases have switched from ATLAS
to OpenBLAS (which requires some horrible frankencompiler system, but
it seems to work for now...), and there are 32- and 64-bit Windows
wheels up on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy/

64-bit is definitely what I'd recommend as a default to someone
wanting to use numpy, because when working with arrays it's too easy
to hit the 32-bit address space limit.

-n

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