How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-05-16, Deborah Swanson <python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:

> Well, my naive opinion is that they should be. But it was just one
> message back that I learned some Python built-in modules are at least
> partially written in C.

Many of the are, because there aren't any platforms that provide a
native Python API for doing things like network and file I/O,
interfacing with GUI layers, etc.  And Python itself (the most widely
used implementation) is also written in C.

> I didn't know that, nor did I know or suspect that installation
> files for official Python releases likely contained C compilers.

What?  That's news to me!

What "official python release" contains a C compiler?

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