• In the previous articles, we had understood
  • How Python can be installed
  • What will happen when you run the python program
• In this article, we will understand different ways of executing python programs

Interactive Prompt

• This mode is the most simplest mode and is used for experimenting with python.
• To Launch Python in interactive mode.
  • Launch Powershell or Command Prompt in your windows machine and Enter Python

• Lets experiment by print the most formal way of starting any language, by instructing the Python terminal to print the Hello world!

• To return to the normal terminal enter exit()

Python Script/Code Files

• Create a file with extension .py, i will be creating hello.py with the following content

print("Hello world!") 

• Now we need to instruct the python to execute this file and that is done by executing python <filename>.py