[Python 3.4.3, pip 6.0.8 ] Error installing Sphinx (on markupsafe install)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/03/2015 05:55, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> Anyone else having problems installing Sphinx as of late? It installed
> perfectly fine for me under windows just a few weeks ago. But
> currently I get an error when trying to install it:
>
> I'm including the full error output.
>
> $ pip install -U sphinx --no-cache-dir
>
>    Running setup.py install for markupsafe
>      building 'markupsafe._speedups' extension
>        File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 339,
> in run
>          self.build_extensions()
>        File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 448,
> in build_extensions
>          self.build_extension(ext)
>        File
> "C:\Users\Mario\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-ahunetv5\markupsafe\setup.py",
> line 47, in build_extension
>          build_ext.build_extension(self, ext)
>        File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 503,
> in build_extension
>          depends=ext.depends)
>        File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 460, in
> compile
>          self.initialize()
>        File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 371, in
> initialize
>          vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec)
>        File
> "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc9_support.py", line 52,
> in query_vcvarsall
>          return unpatched['query_vcvarsall'](version, *args, **kwargs)
>        File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 287, in
> query_vcvarsall
>          raise ValueError(str(list(result.keys())))
>      ValueError: []

The problem is actually with the installation of the markupsafe 
dependancy.  Further the output above tells me that you've not got 
Visual Studio 2010 installed.  Simplest solution is to grab it from here 
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#markupsafe

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Mark Lawrence