Michael Torrie wrote, on February 23, 2017 7:43 AM > > On 2017-02-22 09:49 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > > Didn't even look. Visual Studio has always been pricey, and it never
> > occurred to me that they might have a free or cheap version now. > > You can get the full edition of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio > Community Edition for free. They still offer Visual Studio Express, but > I think they recommend the full community edition to most people now. > The biggest downside to the VS Community Edition is that it has to phone > home and log in to MS's developer web site from time to time to stay > active. Sigh. MS almost gets it, but not quite. Another free version of Visual Studio, wonders never cease! As for it phoning home, I won't use it for long, and then I might not ever use it again. Wonder what value they think this has, other than giving them a nosecount of how many active copies there are at any given time. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list