Ubuntu – Install python in wine – configuring paths from winetricks

I am trying to install Python 2.6 on WINE 1.5 in Ubuntu 12.04. (Yes, I need the WINE version, not the native Ubuntu version).

I have WINE 1.5 running just fine. I do

winetricks python26

Which seems to install python26 just fine, but in the ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/python26/ directory, rather than in .wine/c_drive/...

When I try wine python I'm told

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\python.exe"

How do I tell wine to look in the location where winetricks put this file? Presumably there is a way to set python path?

My Attempts

I did try copying the python.exe from the ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/python26/ directory into the .wine/drive_c/system32 directory, but then simply get an error about a missing DLL:

err:module:import_dll Library python26.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\python.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\python.exe" failed, status c0000135

but that doesn't seem the right way to do this anyhow.

I also tried running winecfg and adding an application, and pointing it to the python.exe file in the ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/python26/ directory, but I get the same

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\python.exe"

error. Thanks.