Phoenix and 64-bit Mac Python?

wxPython Users
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At http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html I see this comment about Mac binaries: “Since they use the Carbon API they are limited to running in 32-bit mode.” Is this in fact still the case? Or is there a version of Phoenix wxPython that is Cocoa-based and therefore capable of being used with 64-bit Python?

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Hi Bruce,

At wxPython API Documentation — wxPython Phoenix 4.2.3a1 documentation I see this comment about Mac
binaries: "Since they use the Carbon API they are limited to running in
32-bit mode." Is this in fact still the case? Or is there a version of
Phoenix wxPython that is Cocoa-based and therefore capable of being used
with 64-bit Python?

I think that paragraph is an old remnant of the wxPython intro page,
and I believe it is not relevant anymore. I don't have a Mac myself
but I am quite sure Phoenix runs on 64 bit Cocoa systems.

Andrea.

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On 12 February 2013 02:53, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

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Andrea Gavana wrote:

Hi Bruce,

At wxPython API Documentation — wxPython Phoenix 4.2.3a1 documentation I see this comment about Mac
binaries: "Since they use the Carbon API they are limited to running in
32-bit mode." Is this in fact still the case? Or is there a version of
Phoenix wxPython that is Cocoa-based and therefore capable of being used
with 64-bit Python?

I think that paragraph is an old remnant of the wxPython intro page,
and I believe it is not relevant anymore. I don't have a Mac myself
but I am quite sure Phoenix runs on 64 bit Cocoa systems.

That is correct.

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On 12 February 2013 02:53, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

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Steve Spicklemire and I have now successfully run VPython with 64-bit Python 3.2 on the Mac, using Phoenix.