Install Python packages on Windows

Question

I'm having a hard time setting up python packages.

EasyInstall from SetupTools is supposed to help that, but they don't have an executable for Python 2.6.

Answer 1

First, pip is preferred over easy_install. 

Then follow these steps to install pip on Windows, it's quite easy.

1. Install setuptools:

   curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | python

2. Install pip:

   curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

3. Optionally, you can add the path to your environment so that you can use pip anywhere. It's somewhere like C:\Python33\Scripts.