Installing python:

Step 1: Installing the Package

At the time of this draft, Python 2.7 is the stable install.
Download Python from http://www.python.org/ and install it
at C:\Python27\
For users with 64-bit systems, the 32-bit version of all software is
recommended.

Open the Command Prompt
Goto your Start Menu. Start > All Programs > Accessories >
Command Prompt

Type into the Command Prompt window:
set path=%path%;C:\Python27\
And hit enter.
You only need to do this once and never again. Read about it
here:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/interpreter.html

Now we're ready to install a package. There's lots to chose from but
we'll start here...

Download simplejson at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson
This is a simplejson-2.1.6.tar.gz file, which in Windows language
means it is a strange and otherworldly kind of zip file.

To open the *tar.gz file, download PeaZip for
Windows http://peazip.org/
Use PeaZip to extract (uncompress / unzip) simplejson-2.1.6.tar.gz
into your Download directory.
You should end up with something similar to this:
C:\Users\pdxNat\Downloads\simplejson-2.1.6\

Go back to your Command Prompt window or open a new one.
You'll need to change directories in the command line and here's how
you do that (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/339 )

When you start, your command line should look something like this:
c:\Users\pdxNat>
You want to get into the simplejson-2.1.6 directory, so at the
command prompt type this:
cd downloads\simplejson-2.1.6
or the complete path:
cd c:\Users\pdxNat\Downloads\simplejson-2.1.6
Your prompt will change from this
c:\Users\pdxNat>
to this
c:\Users\pdxNat\Downloads\simplejson-2.1.6>

Now for the fun part. Inside that simplejson directory there is a file
called setup.py. We're going to install that into the Python universe.
Type this into the Command Prompt :
python setup.py install
See all that stuff flying by? Forget about it. Open a Windows Explorer
window (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Windows Explorer )
and go have a look inside the directory at C:\Python27\Lib\site-
packages\
You'll see simplejson-2.1.6-py2.7.egg has been added to the
directory.

Now open IDLE (Start > All Programs > Python 2.7 > IDLE (Python
GUI)) and type the following:
>>> import simplejson
See all that nothing that happens? That's your sign of success.
Congratulations.
You've just installed and imported your first package for Python on
Windows 7.
Repeat as needed.