Need to build Python 2.6 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

2012-06-06 Thread Tom Kacvinsky
For reasons beyond my control, I have a need to build Python 2.6 with MSVC 2010 (for x64). Does anyone have any hints as to how I can accomplish this? I see there are instructions for building Python 2.7 with MSVC 2010, but those are using the Python 2.7 source as the base for patching, so they d

Installing numpy over an older numpy

2012-06-15 Thread Tom Kacvinsky
I am having problems installing a newer version of numpy over an older installation. The general problem is that the older version's distutils code is being used instead of the distutils code in the newer version, no matter how much I play around with sys.path in setup.py and the like. Any ide