#Python open terminal linux how to#
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Your guidance was helpful, and now I can research and study the terms you mentioned, and I will go back to the python reference after I learned them from the different programming sources. So I apologize that I took your time and troubled you because of my fault that I didn’t research enough about python before posing any questions. I realized this fact after I searched other informal websites that described additional complement programs used for python to make it more comfortable for programmers (the programs that you pointed out like IDE). I think my awkwardly question was because of lacking enough primitive information about python.

#Python open terminal linux how to#

I don’t know how to thank you for your kindness that you enlightened me about python itself and its additional facilities.

But that’s outside the scope of Python itself.Īgain, it would be helpful to clarify what it is that you actually want, and equally importantly, why you want it-are you just looking to change the look of your terminal? Are you looking for a particular type of Python editor, console or IDE? Or do you want to use a whole different operating system? I’m not sure this is the right place for many, if not most of those questions, but we can at least try to suggest somewhere that might be, and if you have more specific questions related to the Python language itself, we can help answer them.

#Python open terminal linux windows#

You can do the same thing with a less primitive terminal emulator than the default, like Windows Terminal or ConEmu, or with the font size/syntax highlighting theme of most IDEs/custom Python consoles. However, you can see Python functions essentially the same, with the standard > prompts, just with slightly different aesthetics (a different background color and an increased text size). Looking at the provided screenshot, that’s because its a terminal running on a Ubuntu Linux system, not native Windows (either through WSL2, a virtual machine or a remote desktop connection). There are also many other third party editors and integrated development environments (IDEs). If you’re interested in scientific Python and looking for something easily to use and like the Matlab IDE, you may want to look into Spyder (full disclosure, I’m one of its volunteer core developers) or JupyterLab. This is probably not what you want as a beginner.įor a simple GUI environment suitable for beginners, IDLE is included with Python and is aimed at this use case. However, if something goes wrong, you may not get anything printed to the terminal providing more information on the error. If you want to run Python code, such as a graphical application, in the background without a command prompt window popping up, you can use the pythonw.exe executable instead. py files (Right click → Open With → Always open with/Always use …`, if its not set already), so you can run them by double-clicking them.

#Python open terminal linux code#

You can execute Python code interactively by typing it at the prompt and pressing enter (try print('Hello world!')), and run Python scripts (which you or others may have written) by either typing python followed by the path to the script at the command line, or setting the Python interpreter to be the default file association for. The Python interpreter ( python.exe on Windows) is a command line program.