How to install Python package from source on Windows

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On 2017-05-30 23:04, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> I never said it was pip's fault, so there's nothing for you to accept my
> word on. It could easily have been something that Anaconda3 did in the
> process of upgrading pip.
> 
> But you're just trying drag this on as long as possible by manufacturing
> an argument where there is none.
> 
If you look at what you wrote below, it says: "Please accept my word 
that the attempt to upgrade pip broke when it tried to install Visual 
Studio 2015".

To what does the word "it" refer?

Normal English usage would suggest that "it" refers to "pip", so that 
would kind of indicate that you were saying that it was pip that tried 
to install Visual Studio 2015.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Python-list 
>> [mailto:python-list-bounces+python=deborahswanson.net at python.o
>> rg] On Behalf Of Chris Angelico
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:35 PM
>> To: python-list at python.org
>> Subject: How to install Python package from source on Windows
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Deborah Swanson 
>> <python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
>> > Please accept my word that the attempt to upgrade pip broke when it 
>> > tried to install Visual Studio 2015, and I wouldn't even 
>> have known to 
>> > say that's what happened if I hadn't seen it in the 
>> traceback. Quite 
>> > possibly it wasn't supposed to do that, but I won't be able to 
>> > reproduce that traceback until I no longer need Python3 running on 
>> > this system.
>> 
>> That's what we are not wanting to do - to merely accept your 
>> word that something so utterly illogical as "Python insists 
>> on installing VS2015" should be happening. We want 
>> tracebacks, not assertions. So no, I won't accept your word 
>> that this is pip's fault.
>>