How to install Python package from source on Windows

Steve D'Aprano steve+python at pearwood.info
Sat May 20 02:15:18 EDT 2017


On Sat, 20 May 2017 10:43 am, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> bartc wrote:
[...]
>> By programmer-hostile do you mean Windows?
> 
> Yes. At least it seems that way to people who are used to developing
> on unix systems. For example, your problems with not being able to 
> run programs from the command line even though they're installed
> hardly ever happens on unix, because everything goes in /usr/bin
> or /usr/local/bin.

Or /sbin or /usr/sbin or /opt :-)

/sbin is often left out of the path of ordinary users.


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Steve
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