Installing NumPy on Windows 8.1 with Python 2.7.x
Question: I'm very new to Python and programming world and has been going along with
tutorials from newcoder.io [This Here! ](http://newcoder.io/dataviz/part-0/) I
have been doing as per the instructions but when I try to install NumPy I get
an error.

" error: Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat).
Get it from <http://aka.ms/vcpython27>

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Command "C:\Users\HP.virtualenvs\DataVizProj\Scripts\python.exe -c "import
setuptools, tokenize;**file** ='c:\users \appdata\local\temp\pip-build-
lsj5sj\numpy\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open',
open)(**file**).re .replace('\r\n', '\n'), **file** , 'exec'))" install
--record c:\users\hp\appdata\local\temp\pip-6jei4k-record\instal cord.txt
--single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers
C:\Users\HP.virtualenvs\DataVizProj\includ te\python2.7" failed with error
code 1 in c:\users\hp\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-lsj5sj\numpy

"

But that's not enough, I tried to install VCForPython27.msi from the given
link. But still, gets the same error.

Please Help!


Answer: I recommend installing the Anaconda distribution of Python. It contains more
packages than you can dream of, including numpy of course:
<http://continuum.io/downloads>

The installation is as straightforward as installing the usual Python, no
matter what OS you are on.

