just started to look into phyton scripting that potentially needed for IT automation. back the few days, was trying to figuring out how to get the command prompt to launch phyton after installing it at phyton.org , FINALLY after 3 days....and some googling....saw some tips from here. "type py in the command prompt...will bring up the >>> hahahhahha well anyone out there that need this...here is it. apart from that you will also need to setup your path. right-click mycomputer --> properties --> advanced system setting --> environment viariable --> path edit the path to include your phyton path e.g mine is at c:\phyton so i edit it as C:\phyton and restart the cmd prompt...then py done