Hi PJ,

Great-- thanks! That was a problem and the fact that when I tried to run it afterwards, I had to go to the Python\Scripts directory, easy_install loaded into that.

Thanks for the help!

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:38 PM, PJ Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Fred G <bayespokerguy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi--
>
> I was having some difficulties installing easy_install.  I was following a
> tutorial that had me on the command prompt typing
> C:/easy_tutorial\ez_setup.py
>
> but in the tutorial this did something else then what my computer did.  For
> me, a notepad file with a python script opened when I did this, instead of
> actually running anything.

Apparently, your computer's python installation is configured to open
.py files in notepad, instead of in Python.  Try typing:

    python ez_setup.py

Instead of just ez_setup.py.