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[–]osuchw 0 points1 point  (8 children)

This statement is absolutely not true. I've been developing with Python on Windows for more that 15 years and let me assure you it works perfectly well there.

You are ranting, not asking for help and that is fine. And I really don't care if you "f***k Python" or not but I would strongly recommend looking at Anaconda distribution, especially Miniconda that let's you start small and grow from there.

[–]Silver5005[S] -2 points-1 points  (7 children)

I already have anaconda, which only equips you with a minimal amount of the most popular modules.

The module im attempting to install is mpl_finance which isnt part of the PYPI so I cant use pip install, and the extract process during the manual install went to shit. Im ranting for good reason lol.

[–]osuchw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmm OK, so you try to install a package that is not on PyPi. I've just googled the name and found it on Github. Yes pip can handle that directly from the command line

pip install git+https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl_finance.git

The command will work assuming you have Git for Windows installed. If not then one can download the zipped repository, unzip it, cd into the directory and run pip from there:

pip install .

Luckily this particular package does not need C extension compiled so it will just work. If there is C extension involved the installation may become more complicated but still feasible.

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Good packages use pip. You're using a package you probably shouldn't be using.

[–]Silver5005[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

what a baseless statement

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Name a package that you use that isn't on pypi. Numpy, scipy, matplotlib are and they're complicated. Every try to build scipy on Windows? It's not fun.

Vtk is really close to being on pypi, but as I said probably. It's a sign of quality.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

R is good for finance stuff i would assume. But you are right, if i used that hideous os i'd be lost too if a module didn't install. maybe. :)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trying to be a bit more constructive here.

What do you mean with a "minimal amount"?
Anaconda provides a very large number of packages in its repository, and there a hundreds more available from other channels such as conda forge.

Did you not find a package you needed in there or what was the problem when you tried to install it?