Installing Python on Windows & Installing Google App Engine on Windows

These steps can help you Install Python on Windows as well as get Google App Engine Installed

1. Download Python 2.5.* from python.org http://www.python.org/download/
2. Run the downloaded MSI and install it, the default is C:\python25
3. Check to make sure Python works. Open up the command prompt by clicking on the Vista Icon, and in the Start Search area type cmd
4. Once the cmd  prompt is open type “cd c:\python25” that will take you to the python directory
5. Type “python” - You should see the “help”, “copyright”, “credits” etc.
6. You don’t want to have to always be in this directory or reference this directory to run Python so we want to add it to our PATH environment variable.  To do this, right click on “My Computer” or “Computer”
7. Select “Advanced System Settings” then “Environment Variables” then for System Variables PATH, Edit this and add “C:\python25;” after %SystemRoot%\system32;    now when you close your command prompt and come back you should be able to run Python anywhere.
8. Getting Google App Engine MSI - http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html
9. Run the MSI and install everything in the default directories, Google App Engine SDK will automatically modify your PATH
10. To Test Google app engine open your command prompt type “cd c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine” and return
11. Type “dev_appserver.py demos/guestbook/” and it will start the SDK web sever with their demo guestbook application
12. Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/8080
13. Done.