Hello and welcome to this video.
This video is about how to download and install Python on Windows based computers to check if python
is installed on your computer.
You need to open up the command prompt and typing the following command which is Python.
Space dash dash version.
I have got my command prompt opened so I'm going to type in the command Python space dash dash version
and then you press Penta.
You should get this message displayed saying Python is not recognized as an internal or external command.
This proves that you haven't got Python installed so I'm just going to exit out of this command prompt
by clicking on the X and we have the Web site for Python so this is the official Web site to download
Python the link is displayed on the screen.
That will give you access to the download page of Python so click on the downloads tab which is this
tab here and the current version as of the time I am recording this video is Python.
Three point seven to necks you can click on the button that says Python three point seven two to begin
the download.
So click on that and it downloads should begin so you can say the download here on the bottom left hand
corner of the screen.
So give that a few minutes to complete the download.
The next thing we're going to do is install Python from the downloaded file to begin the installation
on the bottom left hand corner is the downloaded file just click on it to run the python installation
and you'll be presented with this screen.
I'm just going to minimize the other screen so we can see the installation screen properly the setup
screen provides some information as to where python is going to be installed which it tells you in.
This is where it's going to be installed for me.
It also tells you what else is going to be installed.
So it says it's going to install idol and he's going to install Pip next on the bottom here we've got
a box that says pad Python three point seven took path.
Make sure you click inside that box to make it checked.
And then once you've got that box checked click on this install now button to begin the installation
so click.
And that should start the installation once the installation is finished.
You get the message saying setup was successful.
You can just click to close the set up box.
Next thing we want to do is check that Python is installed to check that we have definitely got Python
installed.
We need to type in the following command inside the command prompt so you type in Python space.
You do dash dash version and then you press enter and that gives you the current version of Python.
You can see it displays version three point seven two.
So this concludes this video on the download and installation of Python.