Python launcher

[Souvik Dutta]

Yes truly this exact question is a headache for beginners. Though it was
not for me.

On Thu, 16 Apr, 2020, 12:51 am Grant Edwards, <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2020-04-15, Pieter van Oostrum <pieter-l at vanoostrum.org> wrote:
> > Angel V <garnetparker01 at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm new to Python and recently began to self learn the language.
> >> Unfortunately, whenever I try to launch it, I'm met with a black pop-up
> >> screen the disappears as soon as it comes up. I've tried uninstalling
> and I
> >> just run into the same issue. I tried downloading the program onto my
> >> brother's computer and it did the same things.
> >
> > It seems to me that a Python installation on Windows needs some "First
> > steps" documentation to direct the beginners to the essentials of how to
> > start a Python program. Preferably something that is displayed
> > immediately after installation of in some other way is prominently
> > displayed. I am not on Windows myself, so I am afraid I will not be of
> > much help in this respect.
>
> I'm not a windows user either, but it's also a pretty good indication
> that something needs to be fixed when people keep running the
> installer instead of the installed applications, and then ask
> (sometimes multiple times per day) on the mailing list why Python is
> broken.
>
> Perhaps the initial screen of the installer should state something like
>
>     This is the Python _installer_.  It is used to install, remove, or
>     repair Python.
>
>     If you have already installed Python and want to run a Python
>     application from a source file foo.py do <this>. Or, to run the
>     Python "Idle" IDE do <this>.
>
> Then again at the end of the installation perhaps display the same
> hints again?
>
> OTOH, maybe the installer already does that, and people really _are_
> that dense...
>
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