On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Deborah Swanson <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> wrote: >> For packages that don't have wheels available on PyPI, you >> can often find an unofficial build on Christoph Gohlke's site >> [1]. He still builds and distributes wheels for Python 3.4, >> but I don't know for how much longer. >> >> [1]: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs > > Ok, I'm done with you guys who don't have a clue what happens to users > of operating sytems forced at gunpoint to die. Well, that's the attempt > anyway, but both me and my operating system are real hard to kill. > > I'm dealing with it, so please, no more advice to use fancy toys that > don't work on XP. And hopefully no more XP bashing because it's my only > choice right now, and I'm not going to turn off my computer and twiddle > my thumbs all day, especially when there's tons of python to keep > learning and using every day, right here on Windows XP. I spent 6 hours > today on a very difficult project, and I'm not going to shut it all down > and quit because some people apparently think that's the only > alternative to upgrading to some other system, and I can neither afford > the time or money to do that right now. And I don't need to. I know XP > inside and out, having tested it at Microsoft for 2+ years, and used it > intensively for the last 15 years.
I don't know why you're still talking about XP bashing. The post you're quoting is specifically stating that you CAN use this on XP (the mention of Python 3.4 was because that version runs on XP). The "fancy toys" you're referring to are wheels? They're just a specific format of precompiled binary that can be downloaded easily and installed. They can be produced by the original package author (in which case pip will find them no trouble), but if they're not, there's a wonderfully helpful chap who builds them and makes them available. That's the link you were given - it's third-party but very well respected. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
