@xrg Yes and no. Looking at it blender uses Python 3.5 so there is not a reason you couldn't make it work but it might be difficult. So I'd recommend against it. I'm not willing to destroy my local Python install to figure it out. Anyways here's all you really have to do: * Right click this link and download. Or go to…
updates shouldnt break anything providing they dont start randomly changing the python API. Thats why people are holding out until the python API is set in stone.
@ant1fact You can select one of the seam edges then use Select > Select Similar > Seam. To do the same in a (ugly) Python one-liner, assuming the mesh is in Edit mode: (Run with the Python Console view.)
You can install pip on Windows by installing Python. Go to the Python download section and download either the 3.x or 2.x. Whichever you need depends on the package but most packages are cross compatible so I would try 3.x first. During install there will be an option to add Python and it's scripts folder to your PATH,…
You can even add new shortcuts for functions. Basically anything that's related to python (I think) can now be called as a shortcut. Since almost the entire program is now exposed to python, that's just about everything. That's my understanding of it anyways.