[Biopython] Windows users - how is 'pip install biopython' for you?

[Peter Cock]

Hello all, particularly our Windows users,

For many years we released Biopython as source code (.zip
or .tar.gz compressed files), and as 32-bit Windows installers
(.exe and later also as .msi format) - you can see all the old
releases listed at the end of this page:

http://biopython.org/wiki/Download

Our latest release, Biopython 1.70, currently only comes as
source code or wheel files - a relatively new format for platform
specific pre-compiled code. You can see these files listed here
on PyPI:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/biopython/1.70

As long as you have a recent version of Python with the tool
pip installed, installing Biopython should be as simple as this
command line on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux:

 pip install biopython

However, by default on Windows, python.exe and pip.exe
are not on the system PATH, so you may need to type in a
longer command like:

 C:\Python27\Scripts\pip install biopython

For Python 3.6 you might need something like this:

 C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts\pip
install biopython

In comparison, the point-and-click graphical installers were
perhaps easier.

So, how are our Windows users finding pip install?

Can we make our instructions any clearer?

Peter