On 2017-05-26 02:59, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 05/25/2017 04:37 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
Here's a question: does Anaconda have a special build of Python, or is
it a standard Python bundled with extra stuff?
I'm not sure, and it's an excellent question. Anaconda stopped
installing Python on XP at 3.4.3. python.org doesn't install 3.5 on XP,
but I don't know which build was the last one that would.
Anaconda and python.org do have completely separate and different build
processes, but I suspect the incompatibility for XP SP2 in both has to
do with failed attempts to install Visual Studio 2015. I've seen it too
many times not to be fairly sure of that. XP SP3 evidently does work, if
Michael Torrie had no problem.
I suspect python.org Python 3.4 will work fine on XP2 without VS.
Anaconda must be doing thingd differently.
FTR, Windows XP SP3 was released in 2008 and Python 3.4 was released in
2014.
Yes, I think it's well worth trying the standard Python 3.4 from python.org.
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