DistutilsPlatformError

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/10/2015 20:35, garyr wrote:
> I'm trying to build an extension for Python 3. I'm using the example code in
> the
> book "Python Essential Reference", 4ed. I have it working for Python 2. But
> when
> I try to build it for Python 3 I get the following error:
>
> distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 is
> required (
> Unable to find vcvarsall.bat).
>
> How can this be fixed?
>
> I'm using Python 3.4.3, obtained from Anaconda, on Win XP
>
> Thanks in advance
> garyr
>

https://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html#windows

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