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Python Pip install Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat. Tried all solutions

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I tried to install Scrapy for Python 2.7.8 (anaconda 2.1.0) 32-bit using pip install scrapy And I got this error error: Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat). I have followed the solutions found in these stackover flow questions. Nothing worked. Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 Can’t find vcvarsall.bat file … Read more

Running powershell script within python script, how to make python print the powershell output while it is running

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I am writing a python script which checks various conditions and runs a powershell script accordingly to help me automate migration from windows XP to windows 7. The powershell script gives its own output giving the user updates as to what is happening. I would like to take the output of the powershell script and print it as output of the python script. I have looked around at some questions which seem to want to do the same thing but they don’t seem to be working for me. Initially I tried using