Compiling Python Modules With Visual Studio .Net?

[John Abel]

Guys, thanks for your responses!  Think I'm going to give VS7 a try, 
mainly to have a go with the ActivePython plugin.  Going to keep my VS6 
CD handy, though.

Thanks again

John

Mark Hammond wrote:

> John Abel wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at upgrading my copy of VS6, with VS.Net, and I wondered 
>> if anyone had experience of developing Python modules with it?  Also, 
>> are there any problems compiling existing modules (4Suite, Numeric, 
>> etc) with it?  Is VS.Net worth the upgrade (I may be looking at 
>> VisualPython), or am I worth sticking with VS6?
>
>
> If you are primarily concerned with Python, then VS6 is still your 
> best bet, as that is what all Python developers and major extension 
> authors currently use.  That may change in the future, but a recent 
> discussion on python-dev made it seem unlikely that Python itself 
> would move to VS7 any time soon (but certainly didn't rule it out in 
> the medium term)
>
> If you have more than Python influencing your decision, then I am 
> afraid I can't help :)  But in general, most simple Python extensions, 
> and many complex ones, are known to work when built with VS7.  A quick 
> test and run of win32all certainly worked fine and anecdotes of others 
> exist.
>
> Mark.
>