python in windows 10

Horrors of horrors, I'm using python in windows 10. Actually, it's not so bad.

Here are some hacks/factoids to know:

• when I type conda, it's really going here for a script: C:/Users/username/Anaconda3/Scripts/conda.exe
• wildcards and directory listings, use glob, as in glob.glob('thepath/fileroot*.nc') or glob.glob('thepath/fileroot??.nc')

Hey govvie - you downloading all those nifty free open source things from the internets? Are you checking the hash? Here's how to do it in Windows PowerShell for SHA256: certutil -hashfile file-path-name SHA256