title: How to install python-Levenshtein or other C/C++ packages on Win 7 64 bit
body: <p>This is driving me completely nuts. I have looked at several answers to questions relating to this, but when I try the solutions non works.<br>
  First I tried a simple
  <em>pip install python-Levenshtein</em>.   This 
  this produced a lot of spam ending with <em>Unable to find vcvarsall.bat</em>Searching on that suggested I need to install Visual C++ 10.0; but when I tried that it errored out as apparently I already have a newer version installed. 
  Then I found answers based on something called 'wheel'. This page <a href="http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#python-levenshtein" rel="nofollow">python libs</a> lists 8 .whl files for this module with NO explanation as to what each one is for.  I tried the first two and got the same response on each: <em>...whl  is not a supported wheel on this platform</em></p>
  
  <p>What I need is simple directions, that the proverbial small child could understand, as to how to install this module.</p>
  
  <p>I am running Python 3.3, on a Win 7 64 bit machine. (I also have Python 2.7 and 2.4 installed but those are for other projects).  I do not use C++ directly for anything so have no knowledge of how its installed on my machine, I imagine it was either part of the OS or came with Python or some other package.  It seems to me that a Python module that relies on a C++ runtime would require the user to have any knowledge of C++ and would be completely 'self-contained'.  So, what am I missing?</p>