python 2.5 and 3gb switch

[Carl Banks]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:10:22 +1200, neil wrote:
> why?

An error traceback or any other information might help us understand the 
problem.  Even if you think you know what the issue is--and you didn't 
seem 100% certain--an example would help other people understand the 
issue better.


> I am asking if any one knows of a 3gb python build. The code runs
> successfully in lesser missions it just wont run in the extra memory
> available when I try to run it along with my other programs in a 3gb
> space.
> thanks for your reply though

You're probably out of luck.  Blender uses a built-in Python interpreter, 
which means you're stuck with whatever version it uses.  If you were to 
install a different version of Python, Blender wouldn't use it--it would 
still use it's built-in version.

(On Windows, I'm not sure if Blender ships with the Python DLL or if 
Python is statically linked in.  If Blender does ship with the Python 
DLL, you could try to replace the DLL it ships with with the DLL from a 
64-bit build of Python, but it would almost certainly crash Blender 
because the function signatures would be different.  Hell, much lesser 
changes can cause problems: it is because of Blender that I compile 
Python in UCS-4 mode.)

There is another possibility: perhaps it is a 64-bit version of Python 
built into Blender, but you need some standard libraries not supplied by 
Blender.  (This is something a traceback might have been able to help us 
find out.)  Does your conversion utility depend on having Python 
installed?  If so, then installing a 64-bit version could help.  But, it 
still behooves you to install the exact same version of Python, 
preferrably built with the same options.

I can't help you there, though; don't run Windows myself.  Did you look 
at the Active State distros?  Maybe they have one.

And finally, asking on the Blender forums would probably be more helpful.


Carl Banks