How to install 64-bit python on Ubuntu
Roger Binns
rogerb at rogerbinns.com
Wed Oct 7 19:07:34 EDT 2009
Curious wrote:
> Ubuntu comes pre-installed with Python2.6 but this python installation
> is a 32 bit installation.
For 64 bit Ubuntu you are mistaken:
$ file /usr/bin/python2.6
/usr/bin/python2.6: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, stripped
> I do the following to know if the current python installation is 32-
> bit or 64-bit:
This is what I do:
>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.sizeof(ctypes.c_void_p)
8
Roger
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