distutils problem windows xp python 2.4.2

[Scott David Daniels]

ajikoe at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello I tried to combine c++ and python together.
> So I follow from this website:
> http://kortis.to/radix/python_ext/
> .... 
> and my setup.py file:
> from distutils.core import setup, Extension
> module = Extension('pr', sources = ['prmodule.c'])
> setup(name = 'Pr test', version = '1.0', ext_modules = [module])
> 
> ------------------------------------
> If I run setup build
> I've got the following error message
> running build
> running build_ext
> error: The .NET Framework SDK needs to be installed before building
> extensions for Python.
> 
> I use visual Studio 2005.
> 
> Thanks,
> pujo
> 
You might take a look at:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/2341e3ac80ae5052?dmode=source

it provides code to change your setup code to:
     from distutils.core import setup, Extension
     module = Extension('pr', sources = ['prmodule.c'])

for attempts in range(2):
     try:
         setup(name='Pr test',
               version='1.0',
               ext_modules=[module])
     except SystemExit, e: pass # Failure. Patch and try again
     else: break # Successful run, no need to retry.

     print '*** Apparently a failure:', e.args[0]
     print '*** Patching and trying again'
     import patch_msvccompiler

--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org