Phyton 32 or 64 bit?
MRAB
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Tue May 26 15:38:15 EDT 2020
On 2020-05-26 19:13, R. A. Hoffman via Python-list wrote:
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> Good afternoon,
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> Please forgive what may be a stupid question. I’m an absolute beginner and downloaded Python 3.8 for 32bits. I’m running Windows 10 on 64bit machine.
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> Question 1 : is it OK to run Python (32 bits) on my machine ?
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The 32-bit version will run on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines.
If you're intending to work with many gigs of RAM then you'd need the
64-bit version, otherwise the 32-bit version is fine.
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> Question 2 : The download went fine. How do I go from here to install and run Python ?
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What exactly did you download? If it's the "executable installer", then
just run it to install Python.
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> Sorry for the dumb questions. Thanks for any help.
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