I have a closed-source 32bit database application running on a 64bit CentOS 5.2 system which is running very well however i am looking at developing some python applications that require access to the data and the vendor only provides a 32bit c library. So while attempting to utilize the library in python with ctypes it became obvious that the 64bit python cannot use the 32bit c library. So what are my choices? 1. is there a way to use the 32bit library in 64bit python i haven't found? 2. install 32bit python on the 64bit system. 'yum list python.i386' shows that 32bit python is not available. 3. manually compile and install 32bit python and _ALL_ its libraries under /opt. has someone already done this? are the RPMs available? let me just say that i am no python expert, yet, so bare with me. Any help would be appreciated. Ben