How to install Python package from source on Windows

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On 2017-05-15 13:52, eryk sun wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Deborah Swanson
> <python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
>>
>> Where did you find recordclass-0.4.3-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl?  There
>> weren't any win32 builds on https://pypi.python.org/pypi/recordclass.
> 
> It's in the middle of the file list:
> 
>     recordclass-0.4.3-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl (md5) Python Wheel cp34
> 2017-04-17 17KB
> 
> Maybe you're looking at a cached page in your browser? But that
> doesn't explain why pip doesn't see it.
> 
>> Maybe I can find an earlier 3 build that won't demand Visual C++.
> 
> The wheel doesn't need a compiler. It has an ABI tag because it
> already includes the compiled extension module.
> 
I used pip to install into Python 3.4 (32-bit) from PyPI. It fetched 
"recordclass-0.4.3.tar.gz" and compiled it instead of fetching 
"recordclass-0.4.3-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl".

Why?

Come to think of it, what's that "cp34m" in the name? I don't have that 
in the regex module's wheels, I have "none" instead.

Rename "recordclass-0.4.3-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl" to 
"recordclass-0.4.3-cp34-name-win32.whl".

With the new name, it installs and seems to work!