On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Deborah Swanson <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> wrote: > Oh, what bliss it must be to run on a system that hasn't been declared a > pariah by everyone and his dog. (But yet it covers all the essential > bases quite nicely.) > > I tried ensurepip, but it also wants to install a recent version of > Visual something-or-other, and it breaks and dies when it can't. So > pipless I will be for the near term. > > Pip may be pure Python, but it seems everything that wants to do > anything with pip wants a recent version of Visual something-or-other to > do it with.
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe there's a non-standard file in the installation that's getting imported ahead of the standard library, and THAT is what's looking for MSVS. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
