My only complaint about Python

[David Fraser]

Istvan Albert wrote:
> Darren Dale wrote:
> 
>> I love the language. I love the community. My only complaint is that 
>> Python for Windows is built with Visual Studio.
>>
>> It is too difficult to build python, or a module, from source. 
> 
> 
> In all fairness this is more the problem with Microsoft than
> python. If they had a free fully-featured compiler then Python
> would be compiled with that.
> 
> Microsoft seems to have made some half-hearted attempt in
> this direction so that is promising.

There's a difference between free and open source. I agree that having 
python compilable using a freely available open source compiler is important

David