Say you are new to python and have recently decide it may be a good idea to give the application a gander but don’t know where to start. If you happen to be searching for detailed instructions on how to install python to Server 2003, or server 2008 on either x86/x64 platforms, you have come to the right place. Before we dive into some of the more common administrative tasks, let’s first start with the installation. The installation of Python is quite easy, but its necessary to pay attention to a few steps.
To start the install, point your browser to the python website here and download the latest stable release. In this example, we are installing the Python MSI and the Visual Studio debug information files (sig) [symbol files]. The package is roughly 17MB in size. Download the MSI and Symbol files somewhere locally or on a network share for later use.
At the installation prompt choose “Install for all users” unless otherwise necessary and select “Next >” to continue.
Now select the directory where you would like to install python. For the sake of this example, we are selecting the default path, otherwise we would be nesting the install elsewhere kind of like what you would do with JRE.
Now let’s to customize our Python environment and cater it to our specific needs, we’ll go into detail later as to what the specific components do. For now select the defaults. Most importantly, we want to register the application extensions. Secondly let’s grab the documentation, utility scripts, Tcl/Tk and test suite.
Once the install is complete you should receive a prompt indicating your install was a success. In the event there were any errors, you should be prompted as well.
