You’re done! Open up a Command Prompt, write python and press Enter. After selecting it, press on “Install Now” button, which will install Python 3 in a default folder.Īfter it, wait until the install process finishes and you’re done! 3. This will make python available in your command line. When you run the executable file, select the “Add Python 3.5 to PATH” checkbox. This will download an executable file (.exe) that will install Python 3 on your machine. The site identifies your operating system and will download for you the windows installer of Python 3. On the downloads page, click on the Download Python 3.5.x (in my case it is 3.5.2) and save the source release on your computer. Download Python 3 from As in the case of Linux, go to the Python website and select Downloads from the menu. When I started to write this part and got to install Python on my Windows 7 machine, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the installation process is fairly simple now, comparing it to that one from some years ago, when you had to modify environment variables in the system settings and set up your environment. Next, open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you have saved the Python source. Download Python 3 from Go to the Python website and select Downloads from the menu. There are several steps you need to make in order to install Python 3 on your system. Actually… not really! The latest Long-Term Support (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) version of Ubuntu has even Python 3.5 pre-installed! That’s cool, but I will still have to write how to install it, for users of previous versions of Ubuntu.
However, other Linux distributions will have similar installation process, so you should be able to install Python in them, too.īut wait… Any modern Linux distribution has Python pre-installed! Oh, it’s Python 2.7. Linux (Ubuntu)Īs I’m mainly an Ubuntu user, I will describe the installation process in this OS. Why then not to make it now? Besides that, Python 3 has many nifty features and generally speaking it is a better version of Python (it’s the next version of Python, after all, so it should be better). If you would like to become an expert Python developer, make sure to check that post out!Īs I don’t have a Mac yet, we’ll address the installation process on Linux and Windows operating systems.Īlso, we’ll consider installing Python 3.5 over Python 2.7, as sooner or later Python 2.7 won’t be supported and you will have to switch to Python 3 anyway. This is what we will talk about in this article.īut before that, I just wanted to let you know that I have written an excellent post on How To Become An Expert At Anything. Whether you have answered affirmatively to the question of why to learn Python, the first thing you need to do is to install Python on your computer.
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