Wednesday 21 October 2009

Tutorial 01 - Running Python

In order to start programming in python - you first need to be able to run python scripts.

You can download python from www.python.org

Once you have python installed you can access it through a command line interface to run your files.

In windows XP you can click start and then run - and enter cmd into the run box to bring up the command line interface.

In Vista you can click on the start menu and in the start search box - type cmd to bring up the same window.

With python installed you can now run python files by typing in python, followed by the location and name of the file - or just the name of the file if you have navigated the command line interface to the location where your files .

e.g. c:>Python pythonfile.py

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