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		ovis on May 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python 3 is killing Python Isn't this what virtualenvs are for?

maxerickson on May 26, 2014 [–]

The tradition on Windows is to download binaries and also not to maintain binary compatibility across compiler versions, so it can be a pain to get matching compiler versions of libraries.

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