On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:

That's the correct command, but you need to run it from the Windows
command prompt, not from within IDLE.

Now that we are talking about how to invoke the installer on other threads...

This is NOT the least bit a rare mistake for newbies. Maybe we should have a way to install right from inside the python REPL.

That would certainly clear up the "which python is this going to get installed into" problem.

-CHB

 

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