`pip install lxml` will indeed fail without VC++ for Python. In fact, sometimes it fails even with VC++ (e.g. installing lxml from within PyCharm). However, exe

`pip install lxml` will indeed fail without VC++ for Python. In fact, sometimes it fails even with VC++ (e.g. installing lxml from within PyCharm). However, executing the binary installer or using `pip install lxml_package_whatever.whl` works just fine.