I have been trying for about a week to get this to work.

Obviously getting Python 2.6 is easy - just install the cygwin package with setup.exe.

Installing the windows version of Python2.7 was also easy, but I could not access the Unix Modules.

So I've been trying to install Python from source, but it seems every time I fix one make error there is another waiting just behind it. Getting rather fed up with the whole thing & thinking someone else must have either done this or figured out it is impossible.

I feel installing Linux would have been the easier route . . .