I was recently playing with my vmware and found that the enthought python distro installs and behaves very well. It has many handy modules bundled with it (but I think that its at 2.3.3 if that makes a difference):
http://www.enthought.com/python/ More windowsy users may have some thoughts about enthought. I don't use windows except when I have to, so there may be something wrong with my suggestion. James On Friday 11 March 2005 11:17 am, Greg Lindstrom wrote: > I've been running python for years and have never had trouble installing > until today. I am trying to install Python 2.3.5 from python.org on my > windows 2000 box. I uninstalled everything from the previous Python, > downloaded and ran the exe and everything appeared to run correctly > (even got the "Python installed correctly" screen). Reboot. When I > open a dos window and type "python" I am told it doesn't know that that > is! The file association with seems to work. Do I need to map the PATH > myself? Everything's in the default directory (C:\Python23). > > Thanks for your help, > --greg > > -- > Greg Lindstrom 501 975.4859 > Computer Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NovaSys Health > Little Rock, Arkansas > > "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." W.W. -- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list