chirpy-starter/_posts/2022-12-10-Installing and Setting up Python.md

Installing and setting up Python.

Windows

Check if you already have it installed.

• Do WinKey+R
• Then type PowerShell
• Finaly press enter

Next you are going to want to type in:

python --version

If you see something like this:

Python 2.10.7

Then you have python installed but it may not be the latest version.

Installing Python

So there are a few options for setting up python. The first one is from the Microsoft store but i would not recommend that as it is a lot harder to setup integrations with IDE's like VSCode. The second one is from [Python] : https://www.python.org/downloads/