[Pythonmac-SIG] Are python extensions compatible between 32 and 64 bit Macs?
Russell E. Owen
rowen at cesmail.net
Tue Oct 3 19:28:44 CEST 2006
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<6a36e7290610021128q43aadfb0u57eef17416d7e295 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Bob Ippolito" <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Russell E. Owen <rowen at cesmail.net> wrote:
> > Will C extensions to Python that are built on 64 bit Macs (such as the
> > new iMacs) will work on 32 bit Macs, and visa versa?
>
> Definitely if the universal binary distribution for Python 2.5 or
> 2.4.3 are used, because it explicitly compiles for (32-bit) i386 and
> ppc only.
Thanks!
I wonder what folks who want 64-bit numpy are going to do. But my own
code doesn't need it, so I'm happy.
-- Russell
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