Michael Torrie wrote, on Thursday, May 25, 2017 1:57 PM > > On 05/25/2017 02:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > >> I just fired up my Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, which has > >> no development tools whatsoever on it (no VS, nothing). I > >> installed 32-bit Python 3.4 from the official python.org > >> download. Then I did the pip > >> upgrade: > > > > Yes XP SP3 can install Visual Studio 2015. No, XP SP2 cannot. > > Huh? What are you talking about? Where are you reading that > I installed Visual Studio? I never had any version of VS > installed, nor was any needed.
Python will attempt to install Visual Studio, and it fails on XP SP2. > > See my tracebacks earlier in this thread. You confirmed > that it works > > in XP SP3, only. > > I didn't see a traceback where you tried to upgrade pip to > 9.0.1. Did you post that? Anyway, it also appears you're > not using the stock Python 3.4 from python.org, so perhaps > whatever version of Python you're using has been modified in > some way. Perhaps the Anaconda folks have a forum or mailing > list that may be more helpful. > > The main point, however, is that upgrading pip and installing > recordclass does not require visual studio at all, on any OS > (including > XP) where a recordclass wheel is available. That was my point. > > As to what I confirmed, you were going on and on about how > Pip somehow requires Visual Studio to be installed, when in > fact it doesn't. As stock Python 3.4 can apparently run on > SP2, pip will run also, without visual studio. > > Though at the risk of drawing your ire, most programs that > run on XP require SP3. I'm a bit surprised that Python 3.4 > will even run at all on SP2. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
