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Wed Dec 22 07:50:43 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-December/106963.html

On 12/22/2010 1:21 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  wrote:
>>     Python 3.2 PyDoc Server (32 bit)
>> is shorter. But since pydoc.py is has no 'bitness',
>>
>>     PyDoc Server (Python 3.2 - 32 bit)
>> is more in line with below
>>
>>> - IDLE (Python 3.2 GUI - 32 bit)
>>
>> I think of IDLE as an IDE, not a GUI, but IDLE IDE does not work too well.
>> In any case, it also has no 'bitness'.
>>
>>     IDLE GUI (Python 3.2 - 32 bit)
>
> The IDLE and Pydoc links implicitly launch an interpreter though -
> that interpreter definitely has a defined pointer size.

That is exactly why I left the identity of the interpreter in parens. It 
is Python3.2 that is 32 or 64 bit, not IDLE or pydocs, so the modifier 
should be attached to Python 3.2 and not IDLE or pydocs.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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