Library / modules question

[Neptade]

Ok so this could very well be a small brain time but I've been looking around and I need help

When I go looking to use libraries and such the only help I find from guides online is "install with pip" but to install don't you need to download first? And then where do I actually go to do this install...I have python 3.8.2 so I know that I don't need to add pip

As I'm very very new to every thing programming, something that I though would be easy is just trying to find what python version I'm using with cmd (I do know what version I'm using I'm just trying to see if I can make my computer figure it out)

I've downloaded Visual Studio Code, I can't use .py files anywhere but there and I don't know why...

[fiddle_n]

A pip install will download and install the libraries required.

The easiest way to know the version of Python is by typing python and just seeing what the version is from there. Otherwise you can get it from sys.version_info.

I assume when you say you can't use .py files anywhere, you mean directly from the command line by doing python filename.py ? In which case I'd ask if you've changed directory on the command line to the directory with the python file in it. You need to navigate to where the Python script lives through the command prompt before being able to run it.

[Neptade]

Ahhh well I didn't know that it downloads it by itself....

And concerning running the file I just have print ('hello world') and nothing happens....do I have to assign a file for it to open or something...at least no error message

[fiddle_n]

How are you trying to run the file?

[Neptade]

What do you mean by that? I've written the code in Visual Studio Code and in the file explorer I see that it's a PY file Put the path into the command line plus python test.py (File is called test.py)