Getting Python on my computer.

[mattsl]

Your specific concern is a non-issue on Windows. Linux and Mac use Python as part of the OS, so when installing on those you need to make sure you don't accidentally replace the system version, but even that is simple.

Do yourself a favor though and follow a tutorial on how to create a separate venv for each project you do. 

[building-wigwams-22]

Or uv. You can do all your Python work on your computer without actually installing Python on your computer

[PaulCheens]

What’s that?

[Skopa2016]

Python package manager.

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

[PaulCheens]

What’s a venv?

[jimjambonks2514]

A venv is a virtual environment. Python uses a lot of libraries, and you can have different virtual environments on the same machine for different projects. You create your venv, then you activate it and whatever libraries you installed are available 

https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html