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.

So once you have run the installer and set python up you can do something called virtual environments.

So to use Virtual Environments (venvs) you need to run the command:

venv