Steps to install Python (IDLE) in windows with advanced path settings?
2 min readJan 14, 2021
In this article, we are going to see how to install python for executing python programming files, in windows, both in command line and in GUI.
Installation Steps:
Here are the steps to download and install the required python version.
- From https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.6 download appropriate Python 2.7.6 Windows Installer. (If that link doesn’t work, check https://www.python.org/downloads/ and download the latest version).
- Run the downloaded executable file.
- Select install for all users or install just for me, click Next.
- You’ll see it installs under the C:\Python27 (Check the path depending on the version downloaded) folder, click Next.
- Click Next again for the ‘Customize Python’ step and Click Finish.
- Open Control Panel, then System.
- Click ‘Advanced system settings’ on the left.
- Click the ‘Environment Variables’ button.
- Under ‘System variables’ click the variable called ‘Path’ then the ‘Edit…’ button. (This will set it for all users, you could instead choose to edit the User variables to just set python as a command prompt command for the…