[Tutor] Installation Problems

[Pierre Dagenais]

Matthew Hill wrote:
> I am a newly beginning aspiring programmer.  I have been learning Blender 3D and I want to use python with it.  I downloaded the newest version of python and I tried running it with Blender 2.47.  Python would work alone but would not with Blender.  I read on a forum that I needed to get python 5.52 to match with what blender wants. 
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Version 5.52 ??? The latest version of python is 2.6 (3.0 for beta).
>  Only the new (5.52) version won't install.  It says 'contact the vender to verify this is a windows program' when I try the install.  What is going on?  Is 5.52 compatible with windows vista?  Am I just missing something?  The prompt I got inside blender with 2.6 was: 
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> checking for installed Python... no installed Python found.
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Sounds like a blender problem, blender can't find python.exe which 
usually is in C:\python26. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with blender.
> Only built-in modules are available. some scripts may not run.
> continuing happily.
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> any insight to these problems would really help me out
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