It definitely doesn't. People writing Python packages make reasonable assumptions like that you've got a POSIX command line, a UTF-8-compatible terminal, and a

It definitely doesn't. People writing Python packages make reasonable assumptions like that you've got a POSIX command line, a UTF-8-compatible terminal, and a C compiler that's compatible with the Python development headers. On Windows, you probably don't. It'd be nice if Windows made an effort to provide a sane environment for Python, because the Python devs certainly aren't doing anything to make things sane on Windows.