tables package for Python 3.9.1?

Question

This is my first question on here. Thank you very much in advance for your support.

I'm using Python 3.9.1 on a 64-bit Windows 10 machine and I've been trying to install the tables package by pip install tables but I always got the following error:

pip install tables
Collecting tables
  Using cached tables-3.6.1.tar.gz (4.6 MB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\users\acer\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\Acer\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-u9bkjlwp\\tables_8a3121807beb4fde8d73782dff1f349e\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\Acer\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-u9bkjlwp\\tables_8a3121807beb4fde8d73782dff1f349e\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\Acer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-pip-egg-info-9_t31x9b'
         cwd: C:\Users\Acer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-u9bkjlwp\tables_8a3121807beb4fde8d73782dff1f349e\
    Complete output (17 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\Acer\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-u9bkjlwp\tables_8a3121807beb4fde8d73782dff1f349e\setup.py", line 634, in <module>
        libdir = compiler.has_function(package.target_function,
      File "c:\users\acer\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 792, in has_function
        objects = self.compile([fname], include_dirs=include_dirs)
      File "c:\users\acer\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\distutils\_msvccompiler.py", line 323, in compile
        self.initialize()
      File "c:\users\acer\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\distutils\_msvccompiler.py", line 220, in initialize
        vc_env = _get_vc_env(plat_spec)
      File "c:\users\acer\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 313, in msvc14_get_vc_env
        return _msvc14_get_vc_env(plat_spec)
      File "c:\users\acer\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 267, in _msvc14_get_vc_env
        raise distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError(
    distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
    * Using Python 3.9.1 (tags/v3.9.1:1e5d33e, Dec  7 2020, 17:08:21) [MSC v.1927 64 bit (AMD64)]
    * USE_PKGCONFIG: False
    ----------------------------------------
WARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2b/32/847ee3f521aae6a0be380d923a736162d698586f444df1ac24b98c65025c/tables-3.6.1.tar.gz#sha256=49a972b8a7c27a8a173aeb05f67acb45fe608b64cd8e9fa667c0962a60b71b49 (from https://pypi.org/simple/tables/) (requires-python:>=3.5). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

I don't understand the error message but I suspect that it has to do with my Python version.

I did install all the prerequisite packages suggested on the tables' homepage but I still got the error while installing the tables package.

I also tried to install with .whl file, too but there was no file with cp39 in its name (which led me to the conclusion that there's no compatible version for Python 3.9 yet, but I might be wrong.)

Is there a way to install tables with Python 3.9.1? Thank you very much.

Answer 1

I've downloaded and installed the tables-3.6.1-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl from this unofficial Windows binaries archive

Installed it with pip install tables-3.6.1-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl

update

The package was removed from the above link. I've found another source: pypi.bartbroe.re/tables/