[Tutor] mixing 64 bit and 32 bit

[James Chapman]

Depending on what you're doing you could run into problems.

Areas that have been challenging for me in the past:
* Loading 64bit compiled .dll in a 32bit Python environment and vice versa.
* Reading registry entries. MS tried to be clever by introducing the
Wow6432Node reg key.

And I'm sure there has been a 3rd item that I am currently unable to
recall. It involved py2exe. This might have been related to the
registry issue mentioned above though.

With all that said, if you know you're likely to have these kinds of
issues it's pretty easy to write code that can deal with these types
of problems and do one thing or another depending on the base OS.




--
James


On 19 March 2014 19:53, John Fabiani <johnf at jfcomputer.com> wrote:
> Thanks
> Johnf
>
> On 03/19/2014 11:01 AM, Reuben wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> The generated bytecodes will be different - but both version can run same
> code without issues
>
> Regards,
> Reuben
>
> On 19-Mar-2014 11:28 PM, "John Fabiani" <johnf at jfcomputer.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> At my office we have a mix of XP (32bit) and Window 7 (64 bit).  I
>> installed python 64 bit on the windows 7 machines and 32 bit on the XP
>> machines.  The question is can the different version run the same code
>> without causing issues.  Can the 64 bit use the same byte code as the 32
>> bit?  It seems to be working but I thought best to check.
>>
>> Johnf
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