I'm looking for gevent for Python 2.7 for windows

Question

However gevent depends upon greenlet and the .msi version I found fails to install and the egg for 2.6 refuses to install.

The msi version fails as follows.

C:\Windows\system32>easy_install greenlet
install_dir C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\
Searching for greenlet
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/greenlet/
Reading http://bitbucket.org/ambroff/greenlet
Reading http://undefined.org/python/#greenlet
Best match: greenlet 0.3.1
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/greenlet/greenlet-0.3.1.tar.gz#md5=8d75d7f3f659e915e286e1b0fa0e1c4d
Processing greenlet-0.3.1.tar.gz
Running greenlet-0.3.1\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\ian\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-1epg28\greenlet-0.3.1\egg-dist-tmp-mqhu3n
C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'repository'
  warnings.warn(msg)
greenlet.c
greenlet.c : fatal error C1074: 'IDB' is illegal extension for PDB file:
error: Setup script exited with error: command '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe"' failed with exit status 2

C:\Windows\system32>

I guess this means that I have a wrong version of VS.

Is there anything else I can use?

I want to get PyQt4 so the GUI won't lock up if the database can't be reached or takes ages to reply.

Answer 1

This worked for me:

1. Grab the gevent installer from the Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages

2. Install greenlet from that same site

And if you're on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine and are having trouble installing, read this too.