My only complaint about Python

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Fri Aug 20 16:39:53 EDT 2004


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.


They do.  MSC/C++ is now available at NO cost:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/


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