On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> The take-home is that about 12 percent of gamers have 32 bit Windows. >> It's easy to believe business users will use 32-bit more. > > > yup -- I tend to think gamers are on the cutting edge.... > > Though I work on gov't which is very slow moving, and we're on 64 bit > finally... > >> Also, I believe that the default Windows Python.org installers are >> 32-bit, at least, that's what the filenames suggest when I try it now. > > > what is "default" -- when I go to pyton.org to downloads, I get: > > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2711/ > > where they are both there with equal footing. > > though I'm running a Mac -- so it starts out suggesting a Mac download -- > maybe if I was running Windows, I'd get a default.
On a virtual Windows machine I just span up, the Python.org site gave me default buttons to download Python 3.5 or 2.7, and the linked installers look like they are 32-bit. I can also go to the full list where there is no preference for one over the other, Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
