Install nupic in windows10 by command: pip install nupic, gaven this error message:

[fenfeibani]

Collecting pytest-cov==2.5.0
Using cached pytest_cov-2.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (21 kB)
Collecting prettytable==0.7.2
Using cached prettytable-0.7.2.tar.bz2 (21 kB)
Collecting pyproj==1.9.3
Using cached pyproj-1.9.3.tar.gz (2.7 MB)
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: 'd:\python27\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'c:\users\kzy\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-6eztzc\pyproj\setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'c:\users\kzy\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-6eztzc\pyproj\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\kzy\appdata\local\temp\pip-pip-egg-info-nxnfyl'
cwd: c:\users\kzy\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-6eztzc\pyproj
Complete output (17 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "c:\users\kzy\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-6eztzc\pyproj\setup.py", line 14, in
objects = cc.compile(['nad2bin.c', 'src/pj_malloc.c'])
File "d:\python27\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 473, in compile
self.initialize()
File "d:\python27\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 383, in initialize
vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec)
File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 147, in msvc9_query_vcvarsall
return EnvironmentInfo(arch, ver).return_env()
File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 1227, in return_env
[self.VCIncludes,
File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 876, in VCIncludes
return [os.path.join(self.si.VCInstallDir, 'Include'),
File "d:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 555, in VCInstallDir
raise distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError(msg)
distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 is required. Get it from http://aka.ms/vcpython27
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[NomandChan]

install "VC 9 for python" in this link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200709160228if_/https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/6/796EF2E4-801B-4FC4-AB28-B59FBF6D907B/VCForPython27.msi
it was hard to find because C++ 2008 download was expired long ago.

[Lxnus]

You can mark this as answer. Worked fine for me! Thank you. 💯