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This is essentially the same concept as what debugging allows. It executes the code step by step, with options that allow you to set breakpoints (as well as conditional breakpoints), inspect variables, or even modify variables and continue executing the code. This site is a little more beginner friendly than the debugger, but if you like what this provide, definitely look into learning how to debug properly. The time you take now to learn it will save you so much time in the long run. More on reddit.com

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This thread hasn't exactly made clear what is actually happening. I'll try to give it a shot. The program you downloaded and installed is the Python interpreter. This program is a program that allows other programs to be executed. It works like this: You feed the interpreter a line of code, and the interpreter executes the code to the best of its ability. Once it has finished executing that line, it will execute the next line, and so forth, until the program is terminated. If you want to execute your Python code, you will always need to run it through an interpreter. (there are exceptions, but never mind them) This is different from a language such as C, which does not have an interpreter at all. In C, you feed the entirety of the code to a program called a compiler. This compiler then analyses all of the code, and translates all of it to machine language. At the end, the compiler creates a new file which is an executable or library (both are also called binaries). This binary is completely standalone, and does not require an interpreter to be executed. It just runs straight on the hardware. The Python interpreter that you downloaded can be fed code in two ways. You already familiarised yourself with the first way. You wrote python into the command line, and it started up a different prompt. This is called the interactive interpreter. The interactive interpreter forces you to feed your code line-by-line, by hand. Why would you want to do this? In most cases, you wouldn't. But a lot of Python programmers love the interactive interpreter because it allows them to interactively discover things. Just to fuck around and see what works, if you will. For actually running the program without the hassle of typing each line by hand, you can also execute python in a different way, which we'll call the "regular way". It works like this: You have a file on your hard drive that contains valid Python code. You want that code to be executed, so you tell the Python interpreter to read that file, and execute it line-by-line. That works like this: python your_file.py Where your_file.py is the file that you had created. The Python interpreter will load the file into memory, and execute it line-by-line until it reaches the last instruction, after which the Python interpreter will shut down. Keep in mind that you can't just save your file to "My Documents", open up your command prompt, type python your_file.py and expect it to work, because it won't. It will complain that it couldn't find your file. This is logical, because when you start up your command prompt, it is in a completely different folder. I'm not very familiar with Windows, but I believe it should default to C:\Users\YOU. You would need to familiarise yourself a little with the Windows command prompt. For starters, dir shows you all the files in the current directory, and cd DIRECTORY_NAME changes your directory to the specified directory. cd .. changes your directory to the previous directory. If you don't want to use the command line (although I would recommend you do. Then again, the Windows command prompt is shit), there are also programs that do this for you. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, IDLE is one such program. When you click "run" in IDLE, it will simply execute python YOUR_FILE.py under the hood, and show you the results. PyCharm is another program that does it, but I do not recommend that you use PyCharm as a beginner. PyCharm tries to do literally everything for you, and you won't understand half the things it's trying to do. The best way to learn, is to simply do it yourself and make mistakes. If you rely on PyCharm fixing your mistakes all the time, you won't learn some very vital skills. And that's about it, I suppose. More on reddit.com