How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Deborah Swanson
<python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote on Sunday, May 14, 2017 11:30 PM
>>
>> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Deborah Swanson
>> <python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Again, maybe I should go back to Python 2 for this.
>>
>> Won't help. The same problems will exist.
>>
>> ChrisA
>>
>
> Good to know.  Maybe I just won't be able to try recordclass until I get
> Linux set up one way or another. Right now it's more important to me to
> spend the few hours a day I have making progress in Python.
>
> (Now, if I can figure out how to make gettattr work in this one
> namedtuple problem, I won't need anything like recordclass. I've
> converted three more Excel spreadsheets to Python, but it's tricky
> working with namedtuples when you want to group rows or take n colomns
> at a time. I've done it, but this one is really tough.)

Hmm. If you're working heavily with tabular data, you may want to
consider numpy or pandas, both of which are designed for major
computational work and will happily manipulate rows or columns of
data. Both are well supported on Windows (and everywhere). They do
have their own learning curve though.

ChrisA