How To Install Python On Windows 7,8,8.1,10

Easy Way To Install Python On Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10

In this section of the tutorial, we will discuss the installation of python on windows operating systems.

Visit the link https://www.python.org/downloads/ to download the latest release of Python. In this tutorial, we will install Python 3.7.2 on our Windows operating system. You can use this in any version of Windows operating systems.

You can directly download a new version of python software by clicking on download button highlighted in an image.

and for older version scroll down of the page and you can see the list of older version application.

 Double tap the executable file which is downloaded; the accompanying window will open. Select Customize installation and continue.

The accompanying window demonstrates all the discretionary highlights. Every one of the highlights should be introduced and are checked as a matter of course; we have to click next to proceed.

The following window shows a list of advanced options. Check all the options which you want to install and click next. Here, we must notice that the first check-box (install for all users) must be checked.

Now, we are ready to install python-3.6.7. Let's install it.

Now, try to run python on the command prompt. Type the command python in case of python2 or python3 in case of python3. It will show an error as given in the below image. It is because we haven't set the path. we have to set the path on environment variable.

To set the path of python, we need to the right click on "my computer" and go to Properties → Advanced → Environment Variables.

  Add the new path variable in the user variable section.

Type PATH as the variable name and set the path to the installation directory of the python shown in the below image.

Now, the path is set, we are ready to run python on our local system. Restart CMD, and type python again. It will open the python interpreter shell where we can execute the python statements.