Questions on 64 bit versions of Python

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> (Any recommendations on a flavor of 64 bit of Linux for the Intel
> architecture would be appreciated)

My recommendation is to use Debian or Ubuntu, as that's my personal
preference. As MAL said, any recent distribution that supports AMD64
should be fine (assuming you are not interested in Itanium, SPARC64,
HPPA (2.0), PPC64, or Alpha, which are all 64-bit flavors of Linux).

Regards,
Martin