Struggling to get started with Python on Windows 8

Hello, I’ve just received my blinkstick square yesterday and I’m eager to get started. To preface I have experience programming in Java using IDEs but not much experience on the command line. Also I’m using Windows 8. I don’t have any experience using package installers like npm or pip.

I’d like to write programs for my blinkstick using python so I followed the steps in the https://github.com/arvydas/blinkstick-python and after installing blinkstick using pip.exe apparently successfully I could not use the ‘blinkstick’ command on cmd. I also grabbed one of the example programs, saved as .py file and tried running it through cmd with python.exe test.py and the program returned an error on the first line “import blinkstick” (I can reproduce those errors and post here if helpful).

However after messing around for awhile I tried a ‘blinkstick’ command like ‘blinkstick --pulse red’ on the Git Bash and for some reason it worked there but not on cmd! I still got the same errors on the import blinkstick line however when trying to run a python script that used the blinkstick package.

TLDR; Can anyone help me troubleshoot, or give me a more in depth explanation of how to get started using python to control my blinkstick?

What exactly is the content of test.py and what are the errors?

Content of test.py
http://pastebin.com/LJgwaK3P

The error from running the command “python test.py” on the Git Bash while in the directory of test.py
http://pastebin.com/pbf3ecnd

I was just reading over the error message and saw that it mentioned “random.py” and saw that I had a compiled python file called random.py in the same directory as test.py, I just deleted that compiled python file and for some reason the command ‘python test.py’ worked.