Comment 4 for bug 382214

I don't know if any of the IPython devs have access to Windows 64 bit.
 Minimally though, we can add a note to the installation docs about
this.

Brian

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Ibrahim Awwal <email address hidden> wrote:
> Right, but unfortunately setuptools doesn't install for the exact same
> reason. I did figure out how to build my own installer by issuing the
> command setup.py bdist_wininst, and at the least I now  have IPython
> working with shortcuts and everything, although I did the same for
> setuptools and it did not work.
>
> If it's that easy to generate the installer, it would be nice to at
> least put up a note for users of 64 bit Windows so they don't waste time
> trying to figure this out. Since the website is a wiki, this shouldn't
> be hard to do, but I'm not sure what the phrasing should be or where the
> notice should go.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help; something else should probably be done to
> help other people who run into the same situation, which will increase
> as more people move to 64 bit Windows.
>
> --
> No version for 64 bit Windows
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382214
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> Status in IPython - Enhanced Interactive Python: New
> Status in pyreadline - a python replacement of readline: New
>
> Bug description:
> When trying to install IPython on Windows Vista 64 bit, the installer errors out because it can't find a Python installation in the registry. I have Python 2.6.2 64 bit installed on my computer.  According to this[1] it's because IPython is 32 bit and so it can't work with the 64 bit Python installation. Is there an easy way to fix this, eg. can I just recompile it myself somehow?
>
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/529c0023fb22922a
>

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Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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