To download Visual Studio Code we will navigate to the downloads section on the Visual Studio website. Now that Python installation has been completed and verified we can now go ahead install Visual Studio Code which we will be using as IDE for Python Programming.

in our case, this should return 3.9.6 as shown below If Python is successfully installed on the machine then this command in output will return the version number of the python runtime installed on the machine. Step 4 – Verify your Python installation by running the Python version command (python –version) from the command prompt window. I chose this option & recommend you all to do the same for compatibility with sources from a Linux environment where the path length isn’t an issue. This change will allow Python to use long path names. Here you will have the option to disable the path length limit of 260 characters for MAX_PATH. Step 3 – On successful completion of Python installation, this screen will be displayed. Step 2 – After selecting Install now progress will be displayed as shown below By adding the PATH of python to the environment variable I will be able to access the Python environment from any folder without the need to specify the fully qualified path to Python runtime.įinally, click on ‘Install Now’ for installation to begin the installation I selected the default options for installation except I chose to ‘Add Python 3.9 to PATH’ which will add details to environment variables in Windows. Step 1 – This is the initial screen after launching the setup program where you can configure options like custom location & feature.

From this link here, we will download the latest version (3.9.6) of python for windows.Īfter the download completes we will execute the downloaded python installer to install Python and as per the installation wizard available will perform the installation steps as shown below. To download Python we will navigate to the downloads section on Python official website. We will have to install Python for the Python runtime environment. What we will need is a Python runtime environment on the windows machine to be able to compile & run Python source code.

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