Please have the Windows installers add the Python installation directory to the PATH environment variable.<div><br></div><div>Many newbies dive in without knowing that they must manually add C:\PythonXY to PATH. It's yak shaving, something perfectly automatable that should have been done by the installers way back in Python 1.0.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div>Please also add PYTHONROOT\Scripts. It's where cool things like easy_install.exe are stored. More yak shaving.</div><div><br></div><div>The only potential downside to this is upsetting users who manage multiple python installations. It's not a problem: they already manually adjust PATH to their liking.</div>
<div><br></div>Cheers,<div><br></div><div>Andrew Pennebaker</div><div><a href="http://www.yellosoft.us" target="_blank">www.yellosoft.us</a></div>
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