Right now, the windows distribution is really geared toward the crowd that really doesn't know and doesn't care about Python distributions, etc. It is intended to "just work" in a way that doesn't require the user to know anything and that doesn't interfere with any other Python things that may or may not be on their system.
True.
I'd be happy to support someone in the effort of fixing this, though I can't commit to getting it done myself. Someone with enough knowledge about how Python windows installs work and a rudimentary knowledge of WISE should be able to work it out so that the win32 distribution is willing to let you pick which Python to use if it sniffs one (or more) out on the target system.
This would be a great solution, but I dont think I can devote any time to it all. Is the WISE installation script available for patching? The hacks I do on windows now to get to read the right python are annoying and I have at least two versions everywhere. I know you're busy so just having 2.x will make me very happy. Cheers. -- Andy McKay.