Python 32 or 64 on 64 bit Windows 7? How will this effect installing easy_install?

Question

I wrote some python code on my mac and how I have to transfer it over to a windows computer. This is frustrating beyond words. I installed Python 2.7 x32, then I uninstalled it, then I installed Python 2.7 x64. My python script depends on xlrd and xlwt, and some other downloaded modules. I would like to install those using easy_install or pip or any way that is easy for somebody who doesn't know too much about the really intricate workings of a computer. As of now, if I do this:

C:\Windows\System32> python

I get:

'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file. 

Would someone suggest a next move for me?

I did a bunch of google-ing and stackoverflow-ing and seem to have landed here, I'm not sure how to download something from here. For example, how would I download Pip, and also, which one would I download?

People say that a person should download and install this, how would I do that?

I'm familiar with terminal, what would I type into cmd?

Answer 1

The reason that I things were not going well for me was because I was using a mixture of Python 2.7 (32-bit) and Python 2.7 (64-bit). After more researching I found that even though my Windows 7 was 64 bit, I didn't have to download the 64-bit python. In fact, the 32-bit python was more compatible with other programs. So I clicked around and uninstalled python and everything else that had the name 'Python' in it from my Add/Remove programs menu. This took about 10 minutes. Next, I downloaded the 32-bit Python 2.7. After this, all of the packages that I download, I made sure that they were 32-bit and not 64-bit.

Also, very important, I went to my 'Environment Variables' (google how to get there) and added the directory of where Python27 was installed. To do this you can follow this guide. The last thing that I did was add ;.PY to the end of PATHEXT.