Hoping some anon can give me some pointers. I have tried so many times to install visual studio so I can write some C# but on all of my computers i am running into a problem where the install fails because a dll is missing. Everything Ive found so far on how to fix that problem calls for uninstalling and reinstalling all previous versions. I've tried that several times and I'm still getting the same problem.

So then I switched to python. I have 2.7 installed and working but the standard libraries dont really give you that much functionality and when I've found libraries that seemed like they would help I (like xlwt for writing to excel spreadsheets with formatting) the damned things either wont install or install but are corrupted.

Does python have a native print function that will give me a little more to work with than console output? All I am trying to do is print a list of numbers that are sorted into rows/columns of predefined length and if the number being printed = a number in one of several lists of numbers it gets color coded. The output could be pixels or ascii or what ever Im just looking for output.

I've been chasing something for a long time and been having to do it manually because it's the only thing thats been working for me and its taking way too long I'll be at this for 5 years before I'm done doing it this way.