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[Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Thu Jan 26 22:20:53 EST 2017 
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Matthias Bussonnier
<bussonniermatthias at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> It's also relatively common to need a 64-bit Python, e.g. if running
>> programs that need more than 4 GiB of address space. (Data analysts
>> run into this fairly often.)
>>
>> I don't know enough about Windows to have an informed opinion about
>> how the trade-offs work out, but as an additional data point, it looks
>> like in the last ~week of PyPI downloads, 32-bit windows wheels have
>> been downloaded 379943 times, and 64-bit windows wheels have been
>> downloaded 331933 times [1], so it's pretty evenly split 53% / 47%.
>>
>
> How much of that is because of the default download on python.org ?
>
> Also % seem swapped depending on python2 vs Python3, and quite different.
>
> Python 3
> 190466   win_amd64  ~ 60%
> 275949   win32

Did you get something reversed here?

> Python 2
> 3139051 win32  ~ 87%
> 463554   win_amd64

I also don't know why your numbers are so much larger than mine...

-n

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