On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 5:11 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2019-02-14, Liste guru <digitalfantasy.it86...@digitalfantasy.it> wrote: > > Il 14/02/2019 00:06, Grant Edwards ha scritto: > >> For many, many years I've always installed ActiveState's ActivePython > >> Community edition when forced to use Windows. It has always included > >> ... > >> I guess it's time to switch to Anaconda or ??? > > > > I've also used the ActiveState python, expecially for the 2.7.x > > series, mainly for the oflline docs and the pywin32 libraries. > > > > Now the situation is better and with pip is really easy to have an > > updated python with a lot of libs so there is less need for the > > ActiveState distribution. > > How does that work for libraries that require a C compiler? Does pip > know how to download and install any required C/C++ toolchains? >
Ideally, it'll be downloading prebuilt wheels. Whether that's always possible, I don't know. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
