installing PygreSQL and psychopg2 modules (a newbie question)

[Tom Brown]

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 14:10, Zlatko Matić wrote:
> Hello.
> I was trying to install PygreSQL and psychopg2 in order to use python
> as front-end for PostgreSQL, on WIndows XP. When I tried to install
> by calling setup.py from command prompt ("setup.py install"), in both
> cases I had the same error:
>
> "error: Python was built with version 7.1 of Visual Studio, and
> extensions need to be built with the same version of the compiler,
> but it isn't installed."
>
> It looks like this:
> "C:\Downloads\Python\psychopg\psycopg2-2.0b5\psycopg2-2.0b5>setup.py
> install running install
> running build
> running build_py
> running build_ext
> building 'psycopg2._psycopg' extension
> error: Python was built with version 7.1 of Visual Studio, and
> extensions need t
> o be built with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't
> installed.
>
> C:\Downloads\Python\psychopg\psycopg2-2.0b5\psycopg2-2.0b5>pause
> Press any key to continue . . ."
>
> What does it mean ? What am I supposed to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zlatko

Use the windows installer for psycopg2. You can download it here:
http://stickpeople.com/projects/python/win-psycopg/psycopg2-2.0b5.win32-py2.4.exe

Tom