Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat)

Question

I\'ve installed Python 3.5 and while running

pip install mysql-python

it gives me the following error

error: Microsoft Vi         


        

Answer 1

Use this link to download and install Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools. It will automatically download visualcppbuildtools_full.exe and install Visual C++ 14.0 without actually installing Visual Studio. After the installation completes, retry pip install and you won't get the error again.

I have tested it on following platform and versions:

Python 3.6 on Windows 7 64-bit
Python 3.8 on Windows 10 64-bit

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