Trying out Google App Engine

Trying Out the Google App Engine

Maybe this is implicit for all hardened Pythoners, but for the uninitiated, using Python with Windows seems to be more of a struggle than it might otherwise be (I know, I should revive my Linux partition -- but what about everyone else?).
So here for other pilgrims --
I'm still suspicious about "C:\Program Files" in the path of any application -- although the problem seems to be that you probably need to open a command line window (thats choose Start then Run then type cmd and click OK)
and type python before anything in the App Engine documentation (assumes C:\Python25 in your path, if this doesnt make sense, G help you and run away, dont walk )

eg
google_appengine/dev_appserver.py helloworld/

becomes

C:\Google:\>python google_appengine/dev_appserver.py helloworld/

simple, and possibly obvious, but it wasnt to me, so for anyone else out there struggling.

So I got it working, although as I had Ruby on Rails using port 8080 I had to stick in --port=8000 in the middle, fortunately nothing else was using that port

C:\Google:\>python google_appengine/dev_appserver.py --port=8000 helloworld/