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Installing Python
Python can be downloaded from the official Python website:

http://www.python.org/

If you are running Microsoft&trade; Windows&trade; then you can download a simple installation file from the downloads section of the official Python website and run that. If you are using a Linux distribution (such as Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat etc.) you will most probably already have python installed.

Running Python
In Microsoft&trade; Windows&trade; you can run IDLE which is a piece of software called a development environment, by clicking on Start Menu, Python, IDLE. This is a program in which you can write and run Python programs.

In a Linux operating system such as Ubuntu, you can simply use Python in the Terminal. You can write a python program using GEdit and saving the file with the ending '.py', for example;