How to Install Python

Python Installation Guide Step by Step

Installing Python is quite simple and easy.

In this tutorial, we will show stepwise procedure to install Python and set up the Python environment in different operating systems.

In order to practice and learn python, installing python setup correctly is the first step. So, let’s get started.

Downloading Python set-up in Windows

Visit the official website of Python. (  python.org ). We can find all the python version and documentation of Python, latest news about Python and many other things.

We can directly click on the yellow download button. After clicking on this, downloading will start automatically for 64 bit operating system.

If you have 32 bit operating system then, follow the following steps:

Step 1. After we have opened the official website of Python, click on Downloads. Then, we will see following options.

Step – 2: As we are downloading Python package for windows. So, click on Windows.

Then, this window will be opened.

On this page we can see Download Windows Installer (32 – bit). Click on this blue link and the downloading will start. We can find the link to this page here(  Link ).

You can download any version you want.

I have downloaded 64 bit version.

Now, let’s see how to install the python package.

Installing Python package in Windows

After downloading is complete we can find the python package in we system.

Its icon should look like shown in the screenshot below.

Next double click on it and installation window will be opened.

Make sure you tick both the check points. And then click on Install Now.

Then, the installation will start.

After the installation is completed, we can check if it’s installed properly by checking the version of our python package through cmd.

Steps to check the version of python.

1. Open cmd ( command prompt)
2. Enter – python –version

Installing Python in Mac

Follow this link to see steps to download and install python on Mac.

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Installing Python in Ubuntu

Follow this link to see step to download and install python in Ubuntu Operating system.

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