Fwd: Problems Installing and getting started.

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Wed, 31 May 2023 08:34:48 +0100, Mark Bass <markbass649 at gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>---------- Forwarded message ---------
>From: Mark Bass <markbass649 at gmail.com>
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 at 08:09
>Subject: Problems Installing and getting started.
>To: <python-list at python.org>
>
>
>Good morning,
>
>I installed python several hours ago (from python.org), I then installed
>the IDE PyCharm. I'm using AI to help with a project that requires
>statistical analysis.
>I cannot open python, when I double clicked a "Modify Setup" window
>appeared with the three options Modify, Repair and Uninstall to click. I
>assumed this was part of the final installation process and clicked Modify
>- it seemed to be successful. I still could not open python. I asked the AI
>and it suggested to click Repair, this still made no difference. I finally
>Uninstalled it, shut down my laptop, had a coffee then re-installed it but
>the same problem occurred.
>Can you help ? Any suggestions?
>I'm really pleased with the AI so far  and looking forward to using Python
>to get my project started.
>Best Regards.....Mark

	You are RERUNNING the Python installer package.

	Once you installed Python -- move that installer package to some
safe/obscure location on your computer (you should only need it if you
really need to fix an error with the installation).

	Python does not provide, normally, a "click me" icon to run Python.
Python is a command line language INTERPRETER/COMPILER. If file
associations are set up, clicking on a script (.py) file /will/ run it --
but the window it opens goes away as soon as the script completes. Instead
one opens a command shell window and runs Python/scripts from that
window...

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.2965]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Owner>python
Python 3.10.11 (tags/v3.10.11:7d4cc5a, Apr  5 2023, 00:38:17) [MSC v.1929
64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

C:\Users\Owner>dir *.py
 Volume in drive C is Sys_OS
 Volume Serial Number is B650-6F92

 Directory of C:\Users\Owner

04/15/2023  04:57 PM                50 junk.py
               1 File(s)             50 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  1,884,894,617,600 bytes free

C:\Users\Owner>python junk.py
2 4 6 8 10 12
C:\Users\Owner>junk.py
2 4 6 8 10 12
C:\Users\Owner>

	Note: depending upon your environment, neither file associates nor
Python may be set up on the path. You may have a "py" command that is set
up to find and run Python (and allow specifying which version if you have
multiple versions (in different directories). Also, you may be affected by
whether Python was installed for "all users" or just the account that did
the install.