On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 23:37 Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: In a message of Sat, 10 Oct 2015 21:52:58 -0000, Oscar Benjamin writes:
>Really this is just a case of an unsupported platform. It's unfortunate >that CPython doesn't properly support this hardware but I think it's >reasonable that if you have to build your interpreter from source then you >have to build your extension modules as well. Alas that there is no easy way to detect. The situation I am imagining is where the administrators of a school build pythons for the students to run on their obsolete hardware, and then the poor students don't understand why pip doesn't work. But I suppose we will just get to deal with that problem when and if it happens. Does it sound plausible to you that a school would build their own Pythons? I only know a few schools and I'd be very surprised if this happened at one of them but I guess there's a lot of schools in the world... The administrators at my daughter's school don't even understand how to put text into an email let alone install compilers and build Python! -- Oscar
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