On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Stephan Houben <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > FWIW, I got the following statement from here: > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Numerical-software-on-Windows > > "Standard numpy and scipy binary releases on Windows use pre-compiled ATLAS > libraries and are 32-bit only because of the difficulty of compiling ATLAS > on 64-bit Windows. " > > Might want to double-check with the numpy folks; it would > be too bad if numpy wouldn't work on the preferred Windows Python.
That's out of date -- official numpy releases have switched from ATLAS to OpenBLAS (which requires some horrible frankencompiler system, but it seems to work for now...), and there are 32- and 64-bit Windows wheels up on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy/ 64-bit is definitely what I'd recommend as a default to someone wanting to use numpy, because when working with arrays it's too easy to hit the 32-bit address space limit. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
