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I discovered it was nearly impossible to set up pip on windows. It required installing virtual environment stuff first which was very difficult. I eventually di
by Houshalter 11y ago
I discovered it was nearly impossible to set up pip on windows. It required installing virtual environment stuff first which was very difficult. I eventually discovered someone who had a binary wrapper of it.
- zo1 11y agoPython on windows is a special case. Don't try to use pip/easy_install(setup tools) for anything that has extension modules, or needs compilation rather. Just find the binary distribution for your CPU architecture for windows and install using that. Pip and setup tools were not made for a windows-type environment. I.e. Where you have don't library dependencies automatically installed and you require a compiler. Windows is a second-class citizen when it comes to those things, but it's getting better with cygwin and all that.
- Kihashi 11y agoPip comes installed by default with python 3.4 and 3.5. Not sure about the latest 2.7 builds, but I expect it's bundled there too. EDIT: For the general case of Python on windows, it might be worth looking into [Anaconda][https://www.continuum.io/downloads https://www.continuum.io/downloads].
- zo1 11y agoSetup tools doesn't have distributions for 2.5 anymore. You have to download a "bootstrap.py" type of file and run that to get setup tools instaled.