Installing Python Under Windows

These instructions get Python, NumPy, SciPy, and the development environment I prefer under Windows, Pythonwin. The SciPy documentation (www.scipy.org, click on "Documentation and Tutorials," then click on Instructions for installing from binaries), says that you need Python 2.1.3 or Python 2.2.1.

So get Python 2.2 from www.python.org, Python's official website.
Click Download, then try Python 2.2.3 - maybe the difference in minor version number will be OK (that represents a bug fix, not a major change in the program). Click on WIndows installer, Python-2.2.3.exe. Notice that a link just below this to win32all gives you pythonwin. (I have also downloaded Python 2.2.3 here and the win32 extensions here.)

Otherwise to get into the pythonwin information:
www.python.org/windows/pythonwin.
Click on download, then another link, then download the latest copies, then the one for Python 2.2.

Get NumPy here. (I have also downloaded this here.)

Now go get SciPy here.
Click on Downloads. Get the binary for Python 2.2. (I have also downloaded SciPy here.)

M.D. Johnson, August 28 2003