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    From Mark Bass@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 31 08:34:48 2023
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    From: Mark Bass <markbass649@gmail.com>
    Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 at 08:09
    Subject: Problems Installing and getting started.
    To: <python-list@python.org>


    Good morning,

    I installed python several hours ago (from python.org), I then installed
    the IDE PyCharm. I'm using AI to help with a project that requires
    statistical analysis.
    I cannot open python, when I double clicked a "Modify Setup" window
    appeared with the three options Modify, Repair and Uninstall to click. I assumed this was part of the final installation process and clicked Modify
    - it seemed to be successful. I still could not open python. I asked the AI
    and it suggested to click Repair, this still made no difference. I finally Uninstalled it, shut down my laptop, had a coffee then re-installed it but
    the same problem occurred.
    Can you help ? Any suggestions?
    I'm really pleased with the AI so far and looking forward to using Python
    to get my project started.
    Best Regards.....Mark

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  • From MRAB@21:1/5 to Mark Bass on Wed May 31 17:29:32 2023
    On 2023-05-31 08:34, Mark Bass wrote:
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    From: Mark Bass <markbass649@gmail.com>
    Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 at 08:09
    Subject: Problems Installing and getting started.
    To: <python-list@python.org>


    Good morning,

    I installed python several hours ago (from python.org), I then installed
    the IDE PyCharm. I'm using AI to help with a project that requires statistical analysis.
    I cannot open python, when I double clicked a "Modify Setup" window
    appeared with the three options Modify, Repair and Uninstall to click. I assumed this was part of the final installation process and clicked Modify
    - it seemed to be successful. I still could not open python. I asked the AI and it suggested to click Repair, this still made no difference. I finally Uninstalled it, shut down my laptop, had a coffee then re-installed it but the same problem occurred.
    Can you help ? Any suggestions?
    I'm really pleased with the AI so far and looking forward to using Python
    to get my project started.

    What do you mean by "open python"? You said that a "Modify Setup" window appeared, which sounds like you're clicking on the *installer*.

    To make it clear, the file that you download from python.org is the
    installer. It installs Python only. It's not an IDE.

    Having said that, the standard distribution from python.org does come
    with IDLE.

    You should be running PyCharm that you installed; that's the IDE. You
    just need to ensure that it's using the version of Python that you've installed.

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  • From Dennis Lee Bieber@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 31 15:52:50 2023
    On Wed, 31 May 2023 08:34:48 +0100, Mark Bass <markbass649@gmail.com>
    declaimed the following:

    ---------- Forwarded message ---------
    From: Mark Bass <markbass649@gmail.com>
    Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 at 08:09
    Subject: Problems Installing and getting started.
    To: <python-list@python.org>


    Good morning,

    I installed python several hours ago (from python.org), I then installed
    the IDE PyCharm. I'm using AI to help with a project that requires >statistical analysis.
    I cannot open python, when I double clicked a "Modify Setup" window
    appeared with the three options Modify, Repair and Uninstall to click. I >assumed this was part of the final installation process and clicked Modify
    - it seemed to be successful. I still could not open python. I asked the AI >and it suggested to click Repair, this still made no difference. I finally >Uninstalled it, shut down my laptop, had a coffee then re-installed it but >the same problem occurred.
    Can you help ? Any suggestions?
    I'm really pleased with the AI so far and looking forward to using Python
    to get my project started.
    Best Regards.....Mark

    You are RERUNNING the Python installer package.

    Once you installed Python -- move that installer package to some safe/obscure location on your computer (you should only need it if you
    really need to fix an error with the installation).

    Python does not provide, normally, a "click me" icon to run Python. Python is a command line language INTERPRETER/COMPILER. If file
    associations are set up, clicking on a script (.py) file /will/ run it --
    but the window it opens goes away as soon as the script completes. Instead
    one opens a command shell window and runs Python/scripts from that
    window...

    Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.2965]
    (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    C:\Users\Owner>python
    Python 3.10.11 (tags/v3.10.11:7d4cc5a, Apr 5 2023, 00:38:17) [MSC v.1929
    64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.


    C:\Users\Owner>dir *.py
    Volume in drive C is Sys_OS
    Volume Serial Number is B650-6F92

    Directory of C:\Users\Owner

    04/15/2023 04:57 PM 50 junk.py
    1 File(s) 50 bytes
    0 Dir(s) 1,884,894,617,600 bytes free

    C:\Users\Owner>python junk.py
    2 4 6 8 10 12
    C:\Users\Owner>junk.py
    2 4 6 8 10 12
    C:\Users\Owner>

    Note: depending upon your environment, neither file associates nor Python may be set up on the path. You may have a "py" command that is set
    up to find and run Python (and allow specifying which version if you have multiple versions (in different directories). Also, you may be affected by whether Python was installed for "all users" or just the account that did
    the install.

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  • From Thomas Passin@21:1/5 to Dennis Lee Bieber on Wed May 31 16:33:01 2023
    On 5/31/2023 3:52 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
    Python does not provide, normally, a "click me" icon to run Python.
    Python is a command line language INTERPRETER/COMPILER. If file
    associations are set up, clicking on a script (.py) file/will/ run it --
    but the window it opens goes away as soon as the script completes. Instead one opens a command shell window and runs Python/scripts from that
    window...

    Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.2965]
    (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    C:\Users\Owner>python
    Python 3.10.11 (tags/v3.10.11:7d4cc5a, Apr 5 2023, 00:38:17) [MSC v.1929
    64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

    On Windows, typing "python" may or may not give the expected version
    depending in what has been installed before. With the python.org
    installation, it's better to type "py" instead (this is Windows only).

    For example, on my Windows 10 computer"

    python
    Python 3.9.9 (tags/v3.9.9:ccb0e6a, Nov 15 2021, 18:08:50) [MSC v.1929 64
    bit (AMD64)] on win32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.


    but -

    py
    Python 3.11.3 (tags/v3.11.3:f3909b8, Apr 4 2023, 23:49:59) [MSC v.1934
    64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.


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