- To install Python on your Windows machine
you need to go to python.org, let's do that now.
From here go to the downloads tab
and then we're going to choose
download python three dot seven dot three.
Programing languages have version numbers
associated with them
because over time new features are added.
By increasing the version number
the developers of the language
are communicating that they've changed something
and it could impact how you use the language.
Now that that's downloaded
we can click on the executable
in order to launch the installation process.
Make sure you choose the
add python three dot seven to path checkbox option.
Then you want to click on install now.
Okay, now that the setup was successful
let's close this as well as the browser window.
To open our newly installed Python installation
we're going to come to the start menu
and then we're going to navigate down
to where you see Python.
If we expand this folder
there's multiple executables present
but we're going to use the one
that's Python three dot seven.
When we click this,
this will open up the Python prompt.
It's at this point that we can start
sending some instructions to the computer.
For now we're just going to exit
and we'll do that by typing exit
with an opening and closing parentheses and that's it.
If for some reason you're not able
to get Python installed,
I've included a troubleshooting guide for you
but otherwise you should be running the latest
and greatest version of Python.