Op 2017-09-22, Irmen de Jong schreef <ir...@nospam.xs4all.nl>: > On 09/22/2017 08:34 PM, Stephan Houben wrote: > >> I was vaguely tempted to offer the Mingw-w64 (GCC) Python as an >> alternative, since it doesn't rely on any optionally-installed Microsoft >> DLLs and so avoids this issue. But I suppose that is not really the >> newbie-friendly solution the OP was looking for... > > Mingw? Perhaps better to choose Anaconda/Miniconda instead if you go for > an alternative implementation...
Anaconda is still based on MSVC and so still relies on the MSVC C library. If installing the MSVC C linrary is the problem, then I don't think Anaconda solves that. Stephan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list