how do I put the python on my desktop or even access it

[Michael Torrie]

On 01/17/2016 02:46 PM, eryk sun wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> but if it's a text-mode program you must run it from cmd.exe like this:
>>
>> python \path\to\myprogram.py.
> 
> You only need to run from another console program to keep the window
> open after Python exits. You can even do that in other ways, but doing
> that is more complicated than it is useful.

Yes, but then we'll get the OP posting to ask why his python program
doesn't run. When he double-clicks his Py file it pops up briefly then
disappears! (Unless the code waits for user input of course).

> BTW, each console window is hosted by an instance of conhost.exe.
> There's nothing special about cmd.exe with respect to the console.

Of course, but I doubt very many people know about conhost.exe.  And
conhost.exe is rather useless in and of itself unless you have something
to run on it.  Thus the usual way to get a console window that you can
actually work with is to run cmd.exe.  I seriously doubt you would tell
a newbie to somehow use conhost.exe to run his program.