Unable to find vcvarsall.bat using Python 3.3 in Windows 8

Question

I am having an issue when I try to run:

pip install numpy

I get:

unable to find vcvarsall.bat.

I followed

Answer 1

You can stick with Visual Studio, but you have to "redirect" it to the one you have installed. In my case I have VS 2012, Python 3.3

SET VS100COMNTOOLS=%VS110COMNTOOLS%

This will make pip use the VS2012's vcvarsall.bat file. Older versions of python might require to alter VS90COMNTOOLS variable.