Installing Python

what do you need for beginnings? 

• python
• idle
• pip

in mint17 (my current favorite o.s), the process was:

1. sudo apt-get install python3 
2. sudo apt-get install idle3
3. sudo apt-get install python-pip

(on windows, go to python downloads, download & install. You Python, IDLE & pip are included;

run pip from PYTHON-HOME\scripts, which would mean on the average windows machine,
something like the folloing command -  c:\python34\scripts\pip)

remark:

this how-to guide describes python 3.4.

further reading - some interesting discussions

• pip on windows before 3.4 
• quickstart on pip 
• Does python have a package/module management system?