How to install Python package from source on Windows

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On 2017-05-26 02:59, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/25/2017 04:37 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>>> Here's a question: does Anaconda have a special build of Python, or is
>> 
>>> it a standard Python bundled with extra stuff?
>> 
>> I'm not sure, and it's an excellent question. Anaconda stopped
>> installing Python on XP at 3.4.3.  python.org doesn't install 3.5 on XP,
>> but I don't know which build was the last one that would. 
>> 
>> Anaconda and python.org do have completely separate and different build
>> processes, but I suspect the incompatibility for XP SP2 in both has to
>> do with failed attempts to install Visual Studio 2015. I've seen it too
>> many times not to be fairly sure of that. XP SP3 evidently does work, if
>> Michael Torrie had no problem. 
> 
> I suspect python.org Python 3.4 will work fine on XP2 without VS.
> Anaconda must be doing thingd differently.
> 
FTR, Windows XP SP3 was released in 2008 and Python 3.4 was released in 
2014.

Yes, I think it's well worth trying the standard Python 3.4 from python.org.