The key is to stick with Python 2.7. Unfortunately pyhon 3 has significantly damaged the brand. Also installing msysgit will give you git and the msys command

The key is to stick with Python 2.7. Unfortunately pyhon 3 has significantly damaged the brand. Also installing msysgit will give you git and the msys command line which is a nice easy to install mostly UNIX command line. It is not a beast like cygwin. With msysgit (for git and msys) you can practically live in the command line on Windows and with python 2.7 the py things mostly just work. pywin32 helps for some things and if pip install doesn't work there's always the unofficial windows binaries: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/