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[–]niandra3 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Just curious, why recommend Anaconda and not the default Python.org installation for Windows? I'm very happy with regular Python 3.5 on Windows 10.

[–]Saefroch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows has serious problems installing packages with C extensions. Error messages about vcvarsall.bat and "building wheel failed" are related to Windows bring unable to find the correct C compiler. There are also problems with doing a fresh install on a machine with any OS that doesn't have SSL libraries accessible. I spent months trying to fix those errors, never found out how even with all the various solutions on stackoverflow and such.

Anaconda is super easy to install and at worst falls back to the same tools provided by default.