Originally posted by: ITDtaddmjunkie

Hi,

We are needing to use 64bit Python and wondering where to get the version for AIX? It seems the python package in AIX tools is 32bit python.

Thanks,

Jim

Originally posted by: AyappanP

64bit Python is also shipped with the same rpm but we are not making it as default. The reason behind this is there are lot of other python modules which are shipped only as 32bit. Those modules won't work with 64bit python.

Originally posted by: Teej42

I want to follow up on this -- 

Which modules are incompatible with 64 bit Python?  Does that list include Numpy/Scipy and Pandas?  I am trying to import and compile Numpy in 64 bit mode, but is having a roadblock of getting gfortran to compile in 64 bit mode (apparently, it won't take the CC/CFLAG/et cetera env var).

This all comes from Python_64 failing to run those modules, and regular python keeping throwing a OOM error when we try to run our program that is quite demanding on memory resources.

Please advise.  Thanks.

Originally posted by: AyappanP

For gfortran. use FFLAGS. 

It's the same way how one build 32-bit modules. Only thing you should be using 64bit python and proper flags "-maix64" 

Originally posted by: ITDtaddmjunkie

Follow up question, but first a statement that I am not a Python guru and posting these questions for a team member:

Our specific setup requires these modules, and I am told they were not found in this package:

pip install wheel

pip install xlrd

pip install XlsxWriter
pip install numpy
pip install matplotlib
pip install pandas
pip install openpyxl

pip install paramiko

pip install unicodecsv

Do these exist for AIX?

Originally posted by: sanket

There are many python modules those are not architecture dependent and can be installed using pip.

We are not providing all the python module as rpm as it will be unmanageable. 

The python modules provided on AIX toolbox as rpm were actually needed for some other package like cloud-init or ansible etc.

Hence only those python modules are provided.

Originally posted by: sanket

Here is the tutorial how to install ML tools (NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, scikit-learn and other on AIX)

https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/machine-learning-with-python-on-aix/

I hope this will be helpful.