Installing Python & Hello World

By Tom Fitzgerald on August 8, 2009 6:39 PM | No Comments

In this tutorial we'll go over how to install Python on your Windows PC and a quick 'Hello World' application.

First download Python and run the setup - agree to all prompts. Easy.
That's it! Python is now installed. Open up notepad and paste in the following code

print 'Hello world'

Save it as hello.py, and just open a command prompt and run the script like this

C:\> hello.py

Then you will see Hello World! It's great and simple. Next time we'll do some more advanced stuff, had to start somewhere.

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