I really don't get it how all of you have latched onto this idea that I said pip tried to install Visual Studio. I said it happened when I tried to upgrade pip, and I agreed with someone else who wondered if it might have been Anaconda3 that did it.
May I remind you that I wasn't the one to reignite this tempest in a teacup, I've simply tried to answer your questions. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Moore [mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 3:03 PM > To: pyt...@deborahswanson.net > Cc: python-list@python.org > Subject: How to install Python package from source on Windows > > > On 30 May 2017 at 21:27, Deborah Swanson > <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> wrote: > > I have already offered to do whatever you would like me to > do on this > > system - after I'm up and running on Linux. I need a functioning > > PyCharm on this system until that happens. > > OK. I'm not sure I care enough to remind you, but if you want > to follow up at that point, then that's great. Can you start > by proving your assertion that pip is trying to install Visual Studio? > > > Please accept my word that the attempt to upgrade pip broke when it > > tried to install Visual Studio 2015, and I wouldn't even > have known to > > say that's what happened if I hadn't seen it in the > traceback. Quite > > possibly it wasn't supposed to do that, but I won't be able to > > reproduce that traceback until I no longer need Python3 running on > > this system. > > I can't accept that - because there's no code that's run by > "python -m pip install -U pip" that would try to install > Visual Studio. If nothing else, how would it know where to > download it from? If that's not the command you used to > upgrade pip, then can you remind me (if you've already said) > or say what command you *did* use? If you can't tell me what > that command was, then can you accept my word that "python -m > pip install -U pip" cannot have been the cause of an attempt > to install Visual Studio 2015? > > > I'm not sure what it is that you think we disagree on. > > Well, the above for a start. But also, that it's worth my > while caring about this. I take it quite personally that you > keep insisting that pip can or would attempt to install > Visual Studio, without backing up that assertion. As far as I > can tell, you think that i shouldn't. > > Anyway, this is getting nowhere, so I won't comment further. > > Paul > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
