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The standard way to install Python on Windows seems to be run the executable and then fiddle with the environmental variables. eg see here or here.

The people I deal with would be intimidated having to modify their environmental variables. So how can someone install Python on Windows and run Python scripts without having to fiddle them?

Perhaps an installer that sets the environmental variables, or a batch script that uses the full paths?

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What environmental variables? If you just want to double-click on .py files to run them, you don't need environmental variables; you only need to set .py files to be opened with Python. – Sasha Chedygov Jan 21 '11 at 2:05
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You only need to set the environment variables if you want to run python from the command line without typing out the full path to the executable. Probably not something that a user will be doing unless they're fairly savvy anyway. – Swiss Jan 21 '11 at 2:15
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