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Please have the Windows installers add the Python installation directory to the PATH environment variable.

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.

Please also add PYTHONROOT\\Scripts. It's where cool things like easy\_install.exe are stored. More yak shaving.

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.

Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker