[Tutor] PYTHON INSTALLATION PROBLEM

Cameron Simpson cs at cskk.id.au
Fri Oct 29 20:08:55 EDT 2021


On 29Oct2021 19:51, Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org> wrote:
>On the Mac, 'Python Launcher' seems to just configure how python will 
>run programs run under python. Generally from the Dock, you will want 
>to click on the 'IDLE' icon, which launches the Python IDE, which gives 
>and editor to write python programs or load a python script.
>
>The other way to run python is from the command line, using a command 
>like python3 myprog.py

Also, Macs ship with Python. If your MacOS is current, the supplied 
Python should be pretty modern.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>


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