Well, I’m new to the forums, and I recently got a new hard drive (the last one crashed) and had to reinstall all of my old programs. With blender, I try downloading it, but every time I run blender the command line for blender says that it cannot find any installed version of python (even though I installed the windows-32 bit version that claims to be compatible with windows 7 and is built with Python 2.6). I check the actual files in the folders, and I see that there is a zipped file for Python 2.6 there, as well as a Python dll every here and there. So after about a few days of searching the internet, I’ve got no idea what to do… the Blender files always go to the program files (x86), so I tried to download the 64-bit version of the blender program, but got the same results… any help? (PS, the same happens for the new 2.56 beta, but that’s self explanatory). Oh, and please tell me if I posted this in the wrong part of the forum. Thank you.
Hello, try downloading the newest python from http://python.org/download/
By the way you want to download the 2.7.1 version. 
I just tried that, but it didn’t work 
Here’s how it is on my computer right now: blender, which I installed using the 32-bit installer from the blender website that claims to have python 2.6, downloaded in its own folder in the Program Files (x86) folder, while the Python 2.7 files made their own folder in the C drive. Is there any special way I’m supposed to direct one of the two to the other, am I supposed to download them in the same folder/location, should I try it using the 62 bit blender file (that I can only extract and put in my own desired location), should I direct them both in the regular program files folder, etc? Thanks, -SJHooks By the way, this is what my blender command prompt is saying (PS, I had to double post because everytime I tried to edit my last post, a notification appeared about “the number of URL’s in a message and checking for forbidden words”…?
One way, is to use the self extracting archive of Blender instead. That way it will look to the path of the packaged python. If you want to use the installer, install Python (the package you get from python.org) first and then Blender. I have used both 32 and 64bit versions this way, though I prefer to use the zipped version. No problems with needing to run Blender as an administrator that way, and all things work.
If you are not on an admin account, and even if you are, be sure to install python with “rightclick” > “run as administrator”
Vista/W7 UAC goes mysterious ways, and Python needs to set its PATH variable, else it is not recognized by blender, which is looking in PATH for the python installation.
I second you try installing with administrator rights, i can see from your picture, that blender has 2.6.2, which is fine, unless you want to use Yafaray. Python installation can sometimes be tricky, if everything fails, try uninstalling blender, then uninstalling python. After that you may clean your registry files with Ccleaner. http://www.piriform.com/
Then restart. Then install python first (Right click, administrator rights, remember installing this in “Program files (x86)”), then install Blender
Right now i am running blender 2.49b, zip file, i have always had problems with the installer and python
I subscribed, so please tell us how is goes.
As far as I know Python 2.7 won’t work, you need to install 2.6 for it.
Which I can’t link because I’m new here -.-
Okay i have succesfully installed 2.6.6, http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.6/ installer here
Okay, Python installed right when I just created a new “Python26” folder in program files (x86), and installed blender second, and blender’s recognizing it now. Thanks everybody!