How to code in Python without using an IDE (for Windows users)

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This page teaches you how to code in Python programming language without using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE).


Step - 1 
Go to the browser, get a good text editor and install it (if you don’t have one on your PC).
Here are some well known text editors -
  • Visual Studio “Code” (Not “Visual Studio”, it is an IDE)
  • Notepad++
  • SciTE
  • jEdit 
(Most Windows PC have notepad++ already installed in them.)

Step - 2
Run PowerShell from start menu, you can search for it and hit ‘enter’. Create a shortcut for PowerShell on the desktop or quick launch in the taskbar.

Step - 3
Download the latest version of Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and install it. (Check the box that says - “add python to your path”, without fail)

Step - 4
In your PowerShell program type “python” and hit enter.

Step - 5
Type quit() and press enter to exit python. You will come back at a prompt - the same as the one you were on before typing python.

Step - 6
Now note the address given before the prompt, it is the address of your home directory. Every time you launch PowerShell you will begin from here.

Step - 7
Create a folder in your home directory manually, we will save our python scripts in this folder.

Step - 8
Now open the text editor and create your first Python script, save it with a “.py” extension in the folder created in the home directory.

Step - 9
Launch PowerShell, type - 
cd <name of the folder in home directory>
Now hit enter, this will change your location to the folder containing the Python script.

Step - 10 
Type - python <name of the script>.py

This will run the code you just typed in the script.

Note - Every time you want to run a script, save it in the folder in home directory, launch PowerShell, move to folder using “cd” command, type “python” and the name of the script with .py extension and hit enter.

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Hi there! Please let me know if the above steps work for you and please comment regarding any issues related to the setup or using PowerShell for running Python scripts.
Thank you 🙏 


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