New submission from Karsten Tinnefeld: When navigating https://www.python.org/ with a browser, in the main menu fly-out Downloads/Download for Windows it suggests to download the 32 bit version of the current 2.x and 3.x releases (leaving out the information that the buttons provide 32 bit binaries).
Further, https://www.python.org/downloads/ repeats this pattern in its header area "Download the latest version for Windows". May I suggest that, depending on the User-Agent header, the menu offers 64 bit versions of the interpreter and tools package by default in case the browser suggests it is running on a 64 bit platform? According to own tests and http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php, this should be possible with a regexp like '(WOW|x)64' on at least IE, FF, Chrome and Edge. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 283875 nosy: Karsten Tinnefeld, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Detect Windows platform 32bit/64bit automatically type: enhancement versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29052> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com