pip is the most widely-used package manager for the Python Package Index, installed by default with recent versions of Python.
Sometimes, pip
will perfom a manual compilation of native code. On Linux python will automatically choose an available C compiler on your system. Refer to the table below for the required Visual Studio/Visual C++ version on Windows (newer versions will not work.).
Python Version | Visual Studio Version | Visual C++ Version |
---|---|---|
2.6 - 3.2 | Visual Studio 2008 | Visual C++ 9.0 |
3.3 - 3.4 | Visual Studio 2010 | Visual C++ 10.0 |
3.5 | Visual Studio 2015 | Visual C++ 14.0 |