How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Michael Torrie]

On 05/25/2017 02:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>> I just fired up my Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, which has 
>> no development tools whatsoever on it (no VS, nothing). I 
>> installed 32-bit Python 3.4 from the official python.org 
>> download. Then I did the pip
>> upgrade:
> 
> Yes XP SP3 can install Visual Studio 2015. No, XP SP2 cannot.

Huh?  What are you talking about?  Where are you reading that I
installed Visual Studio? I never had any version of VS installed, nor
was any needed.

> See my tracebacks earlier in this thread. You confirmed that it works in
> XP SP3, only.

I didn't see a traceback where you tried to upgrade pip to 9.0.1.  Did
you post that?  Anyway, it also appears you're not using the stock
Python 3.4 from python.org, so perhaps whatever version of Python you're
using has been modified in some way.  Perhaps the Anaconda folks have a
forum or mailing list that may be more helpful.

The main point, however, is that upgrading pip and installing
recordclass does not require visual studio at all, on any OS (including
XP) where a recordclass wheel is available.  That was my point.

As to what I confirmed, you were going on and on about how Pip somehow
requires Visual Studio to be installed, when in fact it doesn't.  As
stock Python 3.4 can apparently run on SP2, pip will run also, without
visual studio.

Though at the risk of drawing your ire, most programs that run on XP
require SP3.  I'm a bit surprised that Python 3.4 will even run at all
on SP2.