An alternative way is to use Movable Python. It's a frozen distribution of python that can run without being 'installed'.
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/movpy To display things in a 'window' you'll need to use a GUI toolkit like Tkinter or wxPython. Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list