How did you install Python? I've found that the Enthought distribution to be the simplest and quickest way to get up and running while having good functionality (i.e. scipy up and running).
Active state releases a good version as well... and thus, welcome, to what in my humble opinion (a newbie as well) is the hell of Python... that is, there is a seemingly endless number of possible ways to configure the installations. But that's the hell, the rest is grreat! So it's a sugar coated hell once you get up and running ;) Good luck.
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