it turns out I was mistaken.
Solution is: in anaconda (as well as in other implementations), set the path environment variable to the directory where ‘python.exe’ is installed.
As a default, the python.exe file in anaconda is in:
c:\.....\anaconda
after you do that, obviously, the python command works, in my case, yielding the following.
python
Python 3.4.3 |Anaconda 2.2.0. (64|bit)|(default, Nov 7 2015), etc, etc