easy_install lxml on Python 2.7 on Windows

Question

I\'m using python 2.7 on Windows. How come the following error occurs when I try to install [lxml][1] using [setuptools][2]\'s easy_install?

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Answer 1

The ideal solution (which also works within virtual environments) has been provided here.

Basically, it comes down to downloading a fitting wheel file from here (the "cp" in the filename stands for your Python version) and then simply pip installing it.

It works on my (virtualenv) installation of Python3.3 on Windows 7 64-bit.