

Press and hold the SHIFT key and right click with your mouse somewhere on your desktop, select Open command window here. Now, to check if Python was correctly installed, open a Command Prompt (or a PowerShell) window.

On the last page of the installer, you should also press the Disable path length limit: Press the Install button and in a few minutes, depending on the speed of your computer, you should be ready.

Optionally, you can customize the install location. Finally, on the Advanced Options screen make sure to check Install for all users, Add Python to environment variables and Precompile standard library. On the next screen leave all the optional features checked. Start the installer and select Customize installation. If you need the 64 bits version of Python, check the Looking for a specific release? section from the above page. The default Python Windows installer is 32 bits and this is what I will use in this article. We’ll start by installing the latest stable version of Python 3, which at the time of this writing is 3.8.
