Installing vips for python on Windows

I've downloaded VIPS from from http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk and I have extracted the ZIP file on my machine and added the \bin directory to my PATH.

I am trying to import the vipsCC library into Python using the command:

from vipsCC import VImage

but I keep getting the error:

'No module named vipsCC'

How do I import a module into Python on Windows?

What I've done:

I've downloaded the VIPS package from http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/win32/, extracted it to my windows machine, added the bin directory to the windows path. I then tried to import the vipsCC package into python using the statement "from vipsCC import *" but I get the error that it cannot find the vipsCC module.

I've also (as a hack) copied the DLLs from the vips package into the python DLLs directory, but still no luck.

VIPS is running fine from my command prompt, I just don't know how to import into Python.

Please help!

Thanks.