Bootstrap python basics. Use when installing a fresh python installation (such as pypy) on a system that doesn't come with python. i.e. windows.

gistfile1.txt

import os,
import urllib2

def run_webscript(script_url):
    script_file = os.path.basename(script_url)
    with urllib2.urlopen(script_url) as u:
        with open(script_file, 'w') as s:
            s.write(u.read())
    execfile(script_file, dict(__file__=script_file))

run_webscript('http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py')
run_webscript('https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py')