[darkie]

first of all 'python 2.3' is embedded into xbmc and you the need to do the following to get it working

extract the directories from python.rar (cvs\xbmc\python\python.rar)
to "xbmc home dir\python\"
and if you want some examples you should extract scripts.rar(cvs\xbmc\scripts\scripts.rar)
to "xbmc home dir\scripts\"

you will now have the next directory structure in xbmc
xbmc
  python
      lib
      temp
      www
  scripts
      medusa

you execute scripts thrue the myscripts gui which is under settings->scripts.
currently there is no interaction with xbmc, for example you can't see any output from the python interpreter (this will be added because it's the only way to see where the script stops when an error occours)

included in scripts.rar are the next files

chat-server.py: runs a chat server on port 4000
download_apleasure_zip.py: downloads a file from ftp and places it in your xbmc home dir
download_xskit303_exe.py: downloads another file from ftp
echo_server_port_50007.py: runs an echo server on port 50007
mp3.py: only used for testing and doesn't work
url_fetcher_asyncore.py: used for testing and doesn't work
weather.py: used for testing and doesn't work

medusa\start_medusa: runs an ftp / web and chat server on the ports 8021, 8080 and 8888

if you need any documentation or need more scripts examples you can try the official python website http://www.python.org