title: Running python from a conda environment on windows
body: <p>I have decided to have both python 2 and 3 installed on my Windows PC. Python 3 was included with Anaconda, and works flawlessly after the installation of Anaconda.</p>
  
  <p>After having created successfully a python 2 environment:</p>
  
  <pre><code>conda create --name py27 python=2.7
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I noticed that no python.py file has been created in <em>C:\Users\Hélain\IT\Anaconda3\envs\py27</em>.</p>
  
  <p>Typing <em>python</em> in my terminal launches my python 3 python and <em>py27</em> is not considered a command. Activating or deactivating the environment does no change this behavior.</p>
  
  <p>Result of typing <em>python</em>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\Hélain&gt;activate py27
  Deactivating environment "C:\Users\Hélain\IT\Anaconda3"...
  Activating environment "C:\Users\Hélain\IT\Anaconda3\envs\py27"...
  
  [py27] C:\Users\Hélain&gt;python
  Python 3.4.1 |Anaconda 2.1.0 (64-bit)| (default, Sep 24 2014, 18:32:42) [MSC v.1
  600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  &gt;&gt;&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I run python with my environment's version and packages?</p>