Phyton 32 or 64 bit?

[Alex Kaye]

To all:

The only stupid question is one that wasn't asked !

Alex

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:42 PM MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> On 2020-05-26 19:13, R. A. Hoffman via Python-list wrote:
> >
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> >
> >
> > Please forgive what may be a stupid question. I’m an absolute beginner
> and downloaded Python 3.8 for 32bits. I’m running Windows 10 on 64bit
> machine.
> >
> >
> >
> > Question 1 : is it OK to run Python (32 bits) on my machine ?
> >
> The 32-bit version will run on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines.
>
> If you're intending to work with many gigs of RAM then you'd need the
> 64-bit version, otherwise the 32-bit version is fine.
> >
> >
> > Question 2 : The download went fine. How do I go from here to install
> and run Python ?
> >
> What exactly did you download? If it's the "executable installer", then
> just run it to install Python.
> >
> >
> > Sorry for the dumb questions. Thanks for any help.
> >
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