In this post, we will look at how to run Python with Visual Studio Code in Windows.
To install Python, go to the Python download page at https://www.python.org/ and click on Downloads:
Click Download Python:
This will download the file:
Check Add Python to PATH and click to Install. Note this also installs IDLE (the IDE), pip (the package installer) and documentation:
Note customizing gives us:
Click Close once complete:
Note the links above are:
Now, IDLE is installed, and we can access it through the Windows Start menu:
Opening it, we can start typing commands:
Let’s see which modules are installed, by typing:
help("modules")We see the modules installed:
We will use Visual Studio Code as our IDE to write Python scripts. Open VS Code and go to Extensions, and find the Python extension:
Click Install:
Now let’s install a module. From the Visual Studio terminal, let’s install Requests:
pip install requests
This installs the module:
To run a simple “Hello World”, enter the following text and save the file as HelloWorld.py. Right-click and run the code by selecting Run Python File in Terminal:
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