Re: [Tutor] mixing 64 bit and 32 bit

2014-03-21 Thread 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

[Tutor] mixing 64 bit and 32 bit

2014-03-19 Thread John Fabiani
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?

Re: [Tutor] mixing 64 bit and 32 bit

2014-03-19 Thread Reuben
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 jo...@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

Re: [Tutor] mixing 64 bit and 32 bit

2014-03-19 Thread John Fabiani
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 jo...@jfcomputer.com mailto:jo...@jfcomputer.com wrote: Hi, At my