How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Deborah Swanson
<python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
> Oh, what bliss it must be to run on a system that hasn't been declared a
> pariah by everyone and his dog. (But yet it covers all the essential
> bases quite nicely.)
>
> I tried ensurepip, but it also wants to install a recent version of
> Visual something-or-other, and it breaks and dies when it can't. So
> pipless I will be for the near term.
>
> Pip may be pure Python, but it seems everything that wants to do
> anything with pip wants a recent version of Visual something-or-other to
> do it with.

I'm beginning to wonder if maybe there's a non-standard file in the
installation that's getting imported ahead of the standard library,
and THAT is what's looking for MSVS.

ChrisA