How to install Python package from source on Windows

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On 2017-05-25 21:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Deborah Swanson
> <python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
>>> Anyway I can confirm that VS is not required for installing
>>> and using pip on XP, nor is it required for recordclass,
>>> since it's available in wheel form.
>>
>> See my tracebacks earlier in this thread. You confirmed that it works in
>> XP SP3, only.
> 
> Doesn't matter whether VS works on SP3 but not SP2 - the point was
> that pip works without VS.
> 
Here's a question: does Anaconda have a special build of Python, or is 
it a standard Python bundled with extra stuff?