Assuming you followed Part 1 sucessfully, you already have a pretty functional python environment. To insure you have all the pre-requisites open up a dos prompt and type "python", if you are greeted with the python prompt, you are good to go, if not, go review part 1, we'll wait.

In this part of the series we'll be setting up easy_install. Why should you care about easy_install? Well, because python, like most modern programming languages/frameworks get's a lot of it's functionality from libraries or packages. Thus, making it easier on you to write software because you can rely on functionality that other people have written. And there are some great packages out there to explore.