Using the MSI installer on Windows: Setting PATH and Setuptools

[Skip Montanaro]

> Question 4: If the Windows MSI installer indeed lacks Setuptools, what is the best way to install it from the command line in a future-proof manner (on Windows)? I am imagining something like this:
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> wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
> python ez_setup.py
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> However, (1) wget is not a Windows command. What is the Windows command? And (2) is that URL the best possible URL? Or will that URL only download an old version, and there is a better URL for new versions?

I am not a Windows person, but wouldn't pip do the trick?

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/1.4.1

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