Hi I am running Windows XP, on 32bit. How do I install python? When I run the installation file, it gives me an error saying "installation package not supported by processor type" does python need 64 bit to execute?
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1Are you sure you didn't accidentally download the 64-bit version? There are two different ones; you want the 32-bit one (the top one).Sasha Chedygov– Sasha Chedygov2010-03-30 06:01:28 +00:00Commented Mar 30, 2010 at 6:01
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Your 32-bit options (for Windows) include ActivePython 2.6.5 and ActivePython 3.1.2 (ActivePython comes with some extras in addition to the standard python.org release), plain Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2, and commercial solutions such as Enthought Python (ActiveState also offers commercial options, but the ones I pointed to are the free "community editions" -- python.org's offerings are also gratis, of course).
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Mike Graham
When I install Python on Windows, I always go for ActiveState's distributions, which include pywin32, which allows me to use COM and to access the win32 API.
Alex Martelli
@Mike, yep, that's a substantial part of what I meant by "some extras";-).
Sridhar Ratnakumar
@Mike - ActivePython also comes with a binary package manager of its own. pypm.activestate.com (which makes it easy to install non-trivial packages like MySQLdb or numpy/scipy)
No it doesn't require 64-bit. The download page has both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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Sasha Chedygov
Should probably mention that the top one is 32-bit and the X86-64 one is the 64-bit version. Neither one directly says 32-bit or 64-bit.