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okay, I feel like I am missing something fundamental, and after several hours of trial and error, I have no idea how to get this working. Ill outline what I did and what steps I took. I am using python 2.7.8(32bit) and windows 8.1. first, pip install reportlab installs to the global (doh!) so when I tried to import reportlab for testing the ImportError: No module named reportlab was surprising.
searching reportlab windows virtualenv led me to an email chain from 2008 that suggested simply downloading and putting the files and .dlls in the folder and trying to import reportlab... ImportError: No module named reportlab
a stackoverflow article suggested using easy_install, which at least gave me an error that another stackoverflow article suggested to download VS 2008 to install inside of a venv, which is no longer available for downloads.
more digging and I found this article, but that also resulted in ImportError: No module named reportlab.
Even more digging, and I found pip and .whl files (I feel like I should have found this sooner, but my scope of search was off)... but that too proved to be fruitless.
I seriously feel like I am right on the edge of getting this working and moving on with my project, so any help would be greatly appreciated.