Benjamin, I tried uninstalling and re-installing Python 2.7.2 without success ... I kept getting the proper exe's, but when run, the Python version continued to be reported as 2.7.0.
Finally I installed for current user only (vs. all users) - the installation now correctly reports my version as 2.7.2. Hopefully this will help others. Malcolm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list