Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I saw you already mentioned work toward this a few months (years ?)
> ago. Is there some kind of roadmap, or could you use some help ? I
> would really like to solve this issue as much as we possibly can,

Well, Python 3 has already dropped stdio for its own io library, and
I do want to get rid of the remaining FILE* usage for 3.2. Any other
change needs to be discussed on python-dev first; contributions are welcome.

Regards,
Martin