Installing Python nicely on Windows box

At the time of writing despite x64 Windows use Python 2.7 (not 3.0) and x86 (not x64).

• Install Python latest 2.7 from msi http://www.python.org/download/
• Install Setuptools from msi http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows
• Add C:\Python27\Scripts to %PATH% environment variable.
• cmd, run 'easy_install pip'
• cmd, run 'pip install virtualenv'
• cmd. run 'pip install virtualenvwrapper-win'

The Windows virtualenv wrapper notes are here: https://github.com/davidmarble/virtualenvwrapper-win

At this point ready to use VirtualEnv, along with requirements files etc. I suppose the process might look something like this:

• make project folder new_proj
• cd into new_proj
• make requirements.txt
• edit requirements.txt add say "flask"
• mkvirtualenv new_proj_env
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Additionally the postgres database driver might be required. This is in combination with a local installation of Postgres.

• This can be downloaded from : http://www.stickpeople.com/projects/python/win-psycopg/
• I like installing it as a global package.
• This does involve enabling pass through to global packages per:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3371136/revert-the-no-site-packages-option-with-virtualenv