compiling source

[Mike]

I'm new to programming.   I decided to teach myself pythong as a first
language.  I run win98, linux, and BeOS on my system.  compiling the python
source in those two doesnt see hard because they both come with GCC.  But is
there a way I can do the same in windows?  I dont have to install some big
C++ package to compile it, is there a smaller version I can find on the web
somewhere for this?

Thanks


Mike