How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Michael Torrie]

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.