How To Install Python In Windows

Python Download and Installation Instructions

Yous may want to print these instructions before proceeding, so that you can refer to them while downloading and installing Python. Or, just keep this document in your browser. You should read each step completely earlier performing the action that it describes.

This document shows downloading and installing Python 3.9.6 on Windows 10 in Summer 2021. Yous should download and install the latest version of Python. The current latest (as of Summer 2021) is Python iii.ix.vi.

Call up that you lot must install Python and so Eclipse every bit 64-bit applications.

Python: Version 3.9.6

The Python download requires about 25 Mb of deejay space; go on it on your machine, in example you lot need to re-install Python. When installed, Python requires about an additional 90 Mb of disk infinite.

Downloading

Click Python Download.
The following page volition appear in your browser.
Click the Download Python 3.nine.6 push button. The following pop-upward window titled Opening python-3.96-amd64.exe will appear.

Click the Relieve File button.

The file named python-iii.ix.6-amd64.exe should start downloading into your standard download binder. This file is about 25 Mb so it might take a while to download fully if y'all are on a boring internet connectedness (information technology took me about 10 seconds over a cable modem).

The file should appear in your Downloads binder as
Move this file to a more permanent location, so that you can install Python (and reinstall it hands subsequently, if necessary).
Feel free to explore this webpage further; if you want to just go along the installation, you can terminate the tab browsing this webpage.
Start the Installing instructions directly below.

Installing

Double-click the icon labeling the file python-3.ix.vi-amd64.exe.
A Python three.9.6 (64-chip) Setup pop-up window volition appear.

Ensure that both the Install launcher for all users (recommended) and the Add Python 3.nine to PATH checkboxes at the lesser are checked: typically merely offset is checked by default.

If the Python Installer finds an before version of Python installed on your calculator, the Install Now message may instead announced as Upgrade At present (and the checkboxes volition non announced).
Highlight the Install Now (or Upgrade Now) message, and so click it.
When run, a User Account Command popular-up window may appear on your screen. I could non capture its image, but it asks, Do yous want to allow this app to make changes to your device.
Click the Yeah button.
A new Python 3.9.vi (64-bit) Setup pop-up window will appear with a Setup Progress message and a progress bar.

During installation, it volition show the various components it is installing and move the progress bar towards completion. Soon, a new Python 3.nine.6 (64-bit) Setup popular-upwardly window volition announced with a Setup was successfuly message.
Click the Shut button.

Python should now be installed.

Verifying

To try to verify installation,

Navigate to the directory C:\Users\Pattis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39 (or to any directory Python was installed: see the popular-up window for Installing footstep 1).
Double-click the icon/file python.exe.
The following popular-up window will appear.

A pop-upward window with the championship C:\Users\Pattis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe appears, and inside the window; on the first line is the text Python 3.9.half-dozen ... (notice that it should as well say 64 bit). Inside the window, at the bottom left, is the prompt >>>: type get out() to this prompt and press enter to terminate Python.

Y'all should go along the file python-three.ix.half-dozen.exe somewhere on your reckoner in case yous need to reinstall Python (not likely necessary).