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* Microsoft Visual Studio


Step 1: Install Distribute & Pip
Step 1: Set PATH variables
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If you haven't set your PATH variables as part of the Python2.7 install, now is the time to do that. Right click on My Computer and select properties.
**Windows 7**:
* Click Advanced System Settings from left hand list
* Click the Environment Variables button at the bottom
* In the System variables section double click on the variable line named Path
* Scroll to the end of the variable value field
* add semicolon (;) if one doesn't exist and then type **C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts\**


Step 2: Install Distribute & Pip
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**Distribute** is a fantastic drop-in replacement for **easy_install** and **setuptools**. It allows you to install and manage python packages from PyPi, amongst a few other sources.

To install it, run the python script available here:
<http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py>

Make sure that ```C:\Python27\```, and ```C:\Python27\Scripts``` are in your PATH.

**easy_install** is considered by many to be a deprecated system, so we will install it's replacement: **pip**. Pip allows for uninstallation of packages, and is actively maintained, unlike setuptool's easy_install.

To install pip, simply run: ::
To install pip, simply open a command prompt and run: ::

$ easy_install pip
> easy_install pip


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