Python Development Environment in Windows 8

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Python dev environment setup on Windows

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/win/

Install Python 2.7

1. Start Windows PowerShell as Administrator
2. Run Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
3. Set path with [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "$env:Path;C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts\", "User")
4. Close Admin PowerShell

Download these to a folder:

https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py

1. Open normal user mode PowerShell
2. Change directory to the folder containing the above scripts
3. Run python .\ez_setup.py
4. Run python .\get-pip.py

To install packages, for instance ipython, run pip install ipython.

Get compiled Python packages for Windows here (lxml for example)

PowerShell Extensions

PowerShell Community Extensions

How to do less/head/tail/sed in PowerShell

• Use gc log.txt | select -first 10 for head
• Use gc log.txt | select -last 10 for tail
• Use gc log.txt | more for less
• Use gc log.txt | %{ $_ -replace '\d+', '($0)' } for sed