Michael Torrie wrote, on Thursday, May 25, 2017 12:12 PM > > On 05/25/2017 10:09 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > > Could be, maybe it's something they do for every > installation, whether > > it will use it or not. But it always breaks when it can't install > > Visual Studio. Upgrade pip does run and it works up to that > point. It > > gets as far as uninstalling the old pip, but then there's no way to > > get any pip reinstalled. > > I just fired up my Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, which has > no development tools whatsoever on it (no VS, nothing). I > installed 32-bit Python 3.4 from the official python.org > download. Then I did the pip > upgrade:
Yes XP SP3 can install Visual Studio 2015. No, XP SP2 cannot. Please read earlier in this thread for the details. > C:\Python34>python -m pip install -U pip > Collecting pip > Downloading pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB) > 100% |################################| 1.3MB 137kB/s > Installing collected packages: pip > Found existing installation: pip 7.1.2 > Uninstalling pip-7.1.2: > Successfully uninstalled pip-7.1.2 > Successfully installed pip-9.0.1 > > C:\Python34>python -m pip install recordclass > Collecting recordclass > Downloading recordclass-0.4.3-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl > Installing collected packages: recordclass > Successfully installed recordclass-0.4.3 > > > I'm not sure what's wrong with your python installation but > it has nothing to do with Windows XP or Visual Studio. It > might help if you cut and paste the exact errors you are > seeing. Also did you mention before whether you're running > the standard Python 3.4 package from python.org or are you > running some third-party system? I thought you mentioned > something about anaconda. Please read earlier in this thread if you are still confused. Previous of my posts also contain complete tracebacks. > Anyway I can confirm that VS is not required for installing > and using pip on XP, nor is it required for recordclass, > since it's available in wheel form. See my tracebacks earlier in this thread. You confirmed that it works in XP SP3, only. Deborah -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
