Installing Python
Python distribution is available for a wide variety of platforms. You need to download only the binary code applicable for your platform and install Python.
If the binary code for your platform is not available, you need a C compiler to compile the source code manually. Compiling the source code offers more flexibility in terms of choice of features that you require in your installation.
Here is a quick overview of installing Python on various platforms −
Unix and Linux Installation
Here are the simple steps to install Python on Unix/Linux machine.
1-Open a Web browser and go to https://www.python.org/downloads/.
2-Follow the link to download zipped source code available for Unix/Linux.
3-Download and extract files.
4-Editing the Modules/Setup file if you want to customize some options.
5-run ./configure script
6-make
7-make install
Windows Installation
Here are the steps to install Python on Windows machine
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