Hugh Fisher added the comment:
The registry key is not totally reliable for finding the compiler.
What I did: my system is Windows 8.1 64 bit with Python 2.7 64 bit installed.
I'd been testing a setup.py on Linux, time to try on MSWin. So I downloaded
VCForPython27.msi as recommended b
Change by Hugh Fisher :
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keywords: +patch
pull_requests: +4227
stage: -> patch review
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New submission from Hugh Fisher :
This was raised in issue #23246 but apparently not addressed at the time.
The Visual C for Python 2.7 tools on my MS Windows 8.1 system installed
themselves under the invisible AppData directory because I did not do so as
Administrator. Running setup.py to