A quote from Learn Python the Hard Way: "Warning Windows is a big problem for Python. Sometimes you install Python and one computer will have no problems, and a

A quote from Learn Python the Hard Way: "Warning Windows is a big problem for Python. Sometimes you install Python and one computer will have no problems, and another computer will be missing important features. If you have problems, please visit: http://docs.python.org/faq/windows.html http://docs.python.org/faq/windows.html (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex0.html http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex0.html). Why waste time messing with it? In the time you spend fucking around with Windows, you could have set up a Linux system. And Linux is the OS more commonly used by startups and physics labs (which is why the OP wants to learn how to program).