I am using Python version 3.5.2.
I am tying to edit words and paragraphs in MSWord documents.
Before I can do that I need to install the docx module.
In command line I pointed it to path:
C:\Users\d\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\Scripts
and type:
pip install python-docx.
After hitting return, I get this error message (full output below):
"unable to find vcvarsall.bat".
How can I fix this error?
c:\Users\D\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\Scripts>pip install
python-docx
Collecting python-docx
Using cached python-docx-0.8.6.tar.gz
Collecting lxml>=2.3.2 (from python-docx)
Using cached lxml-3.6.4.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: lxml, python-docx
Running setup.py install for lxml ... error
Complete output from command c:\users\d\appdata\local\programs\python
\python35-32\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\
D\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-9yk1nedc\\lxml\\setup.py';f=getattr(to
kenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();ex
ec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\D\AppData\
Local\Temp\pip-pepj9c3f-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-ma
naged --compile:
Building lxml version 3.6.4.
Building without Cython.
ERROR: b"'xslt-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
\r\noperable program or batch file.\r\n"
** make sure the development packages of libxml2 and libxslt are installed *
*
Using build configuration of libxslt
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build\lib.win32-3.5
creating build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\builder.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\cssselect.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\doctestcompare.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\ElementInclude.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\pyclasslookup.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\sax.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\usedoctest.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\_elementpath.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
creating build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
creating build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\builder.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\clean.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\defs.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\diff.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\ElementSoup.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\formfill.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\html5parser.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\soupparser.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\usedoctest.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\_diffcommand.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\_html5builder.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\_setmixin.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
copying src\lxml\html\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\html
creating build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isosc
hematron
copying src\lxml\lxml.etree.h -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\lxml.etree_api.h -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml
copying src\lxml\includes\c14n.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\config.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\dtdvalid.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\etreepublic.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includ
es
copying src\lxml\includes\htmlparser.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\include
s
copying src\lxml\includes\relaxng.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\schematron.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\include
s
copying src\lxml\includes\tree.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\uri.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\xinclude.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\xmlerror.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\xmlparser.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\xmlschema.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\xpath.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\xslt.pxd -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\etree_defs.h -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\includes
copying src\lxml\includes\lxml-version.h -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\include
s
creating build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources
creating build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\rng
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\rng\iso-schematron.rng -> build\lib
.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\rng
creating build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\RNG2Schtrn.xsl -> build\lib.win
32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\XSD2Schtrn.xsl -> build\lib.win
32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl
creating build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron
-xslt1
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_abstra
ct_expand.xsl -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schema
tron-xslt1
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_dsdl_i
nclude.xsl -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematro
n-xslt1
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_schema
tron_message.xsl -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-sch
ematron-xslt1
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_schema
tron_skeleton_for_xslt1.xsl -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\
xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_svrl_f
or_xslt1.xsl -> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schemat
ron-xslt1
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\readme.txt
-> build\lib.win32-3.5\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1
running build_ext
building 'lxml.etree' extension
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
----------------------------------------
Command "c:\users\d\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\python.exe
-u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\D\\AppData\\Local
\\Temp\\pip-build-9yk1nedc\\lxml\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__
file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file_
_, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\D\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-pepj9c3f-
record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed
with error code 1 in C:\Users\D\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-9yk1nedc\lxm
l\
This is a well-known problem with installing the lxml Python library on Windows.
The TL;DR version here is you install lxml from a "binary installation package" which comes pre-compiled and takes care of all the details for you.
You can find one of those here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml
The 'cp' segment stands for 'C Python' (regular Python, as opposed to PyPy for example) and the version, so if you're using Python 2.7 you want one of the packages with -cp27- in the name. There are two of these, one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. You probably want 32-bit because that's the default Python install on Windows.
Once you download the binary installation package ("wheel"), you install it using pip, e.g.:
pip install lxml‑3.6.4‑cp27‑cp27m‑win32.whl