How to install Python package from source on Windows
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Thu May 25 23:23:54 EDT 2017
On 2017-05-26 02:59, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/25/2017 04:37 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>>> Here's a question: does Anaconda have a special build of Python, or is
>>
>>> it a standard Python bundled with extra stuff?
>>
>> I'm not sure, and it's an excellent question. Anaconda stopped
>> installing Python on XP at 3.4.3. python.org doesn't install 3.5 on XP,
>> but I don't know which build was the last one that would.
>>
>> Anaconda and python.org do have completely separate and different build
>> processes, but I suspect the incompatibility for XP SP2 in both has to
>> do with failed attempts to install Visual Studio 2015. I've seen it too
>> many times not to be fairly sure of that. XP SP3 evidently does work, if
>> Michael Torrie had no problem.
>
> I suspect python.org Python 3.4 will work fine on XP2 without VS.
> Anaconda must be doing thingd differently.
>
FTR, Windows XP SP3 was released in 2008 and Python 3.4 was released in
2014.
Yes, I think it's well worth trying the standard Python 3.4 from python.org.
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