Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-21 Thread Nico Grubert
Several changes have been made to Python 2.4 and 2.5 to support AMD64-Linux better, and not all of these changes have been incorporated into Python 2.3, as this software is no longer maintained. As others have said: you should really try to use the python 2.4 that comes with the operating

Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-19 Thread Nico Grubert
? Is there anything special I have to care about or is installing Python on a 64 Bit OS just as easy as installing it on a 32-Bit OS? Regards, Nico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Nico Grubert wrote: Is there anything special I have to care about or is installing Python on a 64 Bit OS just as easy as installing it on a 32-Bit OS? It is as easy. Look around, you'll probably find a pre-built binary package for your OS. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-19 Thread Steve Holden
/Python-2.3.5.tgz ? Is there anything special I have to care about or is installing Python on a 64 Bit OS just as easy as installing it on a 32-Bit OS? More recent versions of Python have incorporated much more support for 64-bit architectures. 2.5 is about to be released (I believe it should

Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-19 Thread Steve Holden
/python/2.3.5/Python-2.3.5.tgz ? Is there anything special I have to care about or is installing Python on a 64 Bit OS just as easy as installing it on a 32-Bit OS? More recent versions of Python have incorporated much more support for 64-bit architectures. 2.5 is about to be released (I

Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
More recent versions of Python have incorporated much more support for 64-bit architectures. 2.5 is about to be released (I believe it should be out in the next 24 hours), and I'd recommend that over the older version you are considering. If by 24 hours you mean 20 minutes ago, this is

Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-19 Thread Daniel Dittmar
.tgz ? Is there anything special I have to care about or is installing Python on a 64 Bit OS just as easy as installing it on a 32-Bit OS? On this platform, it should be easy to build from the sources as gcc builds 64 bit programs by default. On some platforms (Solaris/Sparc, AIX, HP-UX/PA-RISC

Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-19 Thread Steve Holden
Anthony Baxter wrote: More recent versions of Python have incorporated much more support for 64-bit architectures. 2.5 is about to be released (I believe it should be out in the next 24 hours), and I'd recommend that over the older version you are considering. If by 24 hours you mean 20

Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

2006-09-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Nico Grubert schrieb: Is there anything special I have to care about or is installing Python on a 64 Bit OS just as easy as installing it on a 32-Bit OS? Despite what everybody else said: most likely, special care is necessary. However, nobody probably knows what precisely you need to be aware