vcvarsall.bat error through pip install python-docx

Question

When running pip install python-docx I encounter the error message error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat.

These are basically the two solutions:

1) Install VS2008

2) SET VS90COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools

Both I've done and the error persists. Does anyone hold another solution?

Answer 1

You should be using Visual Studio 2010, as Python 3.3 was built with it, and therefore satisfies all dependencies needed.

1) Install VS10

2) SET VS100COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools (assuming that the path is still the same?)

Answer 2

I saw that error message when installing the talib python package. I got it to work after reading this: http://www.python-forum.org/viewtopic.php?t=1761&p=2517