How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Gregory Ewing]

MRAB wrote:
> CPython is being developed primarily on Linux. Linux and other Unix-like 
> operating systems come with a C compiler as standard (the histories of 
> Unix and C are closely linked).

Also, Linux (and other unix-like systems) don't tend to change
the compiler toolsets and libraries in incompatible ways with
every release like Microsoft is in the habit of doing, so it's
far less critical to have exactly the right version of the
compiler at hand when compiling Python modules.

-- 
Greg