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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
