Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 02:52:58 EDT 2016

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On 16 July 2016 at 08:20, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
> Backwards Compatibility
> -----------------------
>
> Python 3.4 and earlier did not distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit builds
> in
> ``sys.winver``. As a result, it is possible to have valid side-by-side
> installations of both 32-bit and 64-bit interpreters.

The second sentence here seems like it should say "... it is not
possible ..." (since subsequent paragraphs explain that side-by-side
installs of 32-bit and 64-bit versions don't really work properly
until 3.5)

Cheers,
Nick.

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