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Installing Python:: Step 1: Installing The Package

To install Python and a package (simplejson) on Windows: 1. Download and install Python 2.7, setting the path to C:\Python27. 2. Download simplejson from PyPI and extract the file. 3. Open the command prompt and navigate to the simplejson directory. 4. Run "python setup.py install" to install simplejson into the Python library.

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Installing Python:: Step 1: Installing The Package

To install Python and a package (simplejson) on Windows: 1. Download and install Python 2.7, setting the path to C:\Python27. 2. Download simplejson from PyPI and extract the file. 3. Open the command prompt and navigate to the simplejson directory. 4. Run "python setup.py install" to install simplejson into the Python library.

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Installing python:

Step 1: Installing the Package








At the time of this draft, Python 2.7 is the stable install.
Download Python from http://www.python.org/ and install it
at C:\Python27\
For users with 64-bit systems, the 32-bit version of all software is
recommended.

Open the Command Prompt
Goto your Start Menu. Start > All Programs > Accessories >
Command Prompt

Type into the Command Prompt window:
set path=%path%;C:\Python27\
And hit enter.
You only need to do this once and never again. Read about it
here:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/interpreter.html

Now we're ready to install a package. There's lots to chose from but
we'll start here...

Download simplejson at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson
This is a simplejson-2.1.6.tar.gz file, which in Windows language
means it is a strange and otherworldly kind of zip file.

To open the *tar.gz file, download PeaZip for
Windows http://peazip.org/
Use PeaZip to extract (uncompress / unzip) simplejson-2.1.6.tar.gz
into your Download directory.
You should end up with something similar to this:
C:\Users\pdxNat\Downloads\simplejson-2.1.6\

Go back to your Command Prompt window or open a new one.
You'll need to change directories in the command line and here's how
you do that (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/339 )

When you start, your command line should look something like this:
c:\Users\pdxNat>
You want to get into the simplejson-2.1.6 directory, so at the
command prompt type this:
cd downloads\simplejson-2.1.6
or the complete path:
cd c:\Users\pdxNat\Downloads\simplejson-2.1.6
Your prompt will change from this
c:\Users\pdxNat>
to this
c:\Users\pdxNat\Downloads\simplejson-2.1.6>

Now for the fun part. Inside that simplejson directory there is a file
called setup.py. We're going to install that into the Python universe.
Type this into the Command Prompt :
python setup.py install
See all that stuff flying by? Forget about it. Open a Windows Explorer
window (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Windows Explorer )
and go have a look inside the directory at C:\Python27\Lib\site-
packages\
You'll see simplejson-2.1.6-py2.7.egg has been added to the
directory.

Now open IDLE (Start > All Programs > Python 2.7 > IDLE (Python
GUI)) and type the following:
>>> import simplejson
See all that nothing that happens? That's your sign of success.
Congratulations.
You've just installed and imported your first package for Python on
Windows 7.
Repeat as needed.

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