eryk sun wrote, on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 6:32 PM > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Deborah Swanson > <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> wrote: > > > > When I tried to upgrade pip it failed because it could neither find > > nor install Visual Studio 2015. > > Installing and upgrading pip does not require a C compiler. > > > So now I'm pipless. Read the thread if you want to know why I don't > > have and can't (and won't) install Visual Studio 2015. > > VS 2015 is the wrong version for Python 3.4 anyway. You would > need VS 2010. However, you don't need it in this case. You > just need the latest pip. > > For packages that don't have wheels available on PyPI, you > can often find an unofficial build on Christoph Gohlke's site > [1]. He still builds and distributes wheels for Python 3.4, > but I don't know for how much longer. > > [1]: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs
Ok, I'm done with you guys who don't have a clue what happens to users of operating sytems forced at gunpoint to die. Well, that's the attempt anyway, but both me and my operating system are real hard to kill. I'm dealing with it, so please, no more advice to use fancy toys that don't work on XP. And hopefully no more XP bashing because it's my only choice right now, and I'm not going to turn off my computer and twiddle my thumbs all day, especially when there's tons of python to keep learning and using every day, right here on Windows XP. I spent 6 hours today on a very difficult project, and I'm not going to shut it all down and quit because some people apparently think that's the only alternative to upgrading to some other system, and I can neither afford the time or money to do that right now. And I don't need to. I know XP inside and out, having tested it at Microsoft for 2+ years, and used it intensively for the last 15 years. Actually, any more XP bashing and replying posts will be immediately deleted on my computer without reply from me. (Not saying that you or Paul did that, just warning anyone who wants to use this opportunity to jump on the XP beatdown wagon. And I keep track and keep names, so I'll know you if you ever reply to me again about anything.) Deborah -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
