Fwd: Troubling running my Python

[bob gailer]

On 4/8/2020 3:35 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Assuming Windows here.
> The Python interpreter does nothing without a python program to run (to
> interpret).  Thus if you simply double click on python.exe it will do
> nothing.

That does not match my experience. I get the interactive prompt:

Python 3.8.0 (tags/v3.8.0:fa919fd, Oct 14 2019, 19:37:50) [MSC v.1916 64 
bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>

Bob Gailer