Installing Windows-Store Python & running a Python program Install Python from the Windows storeĬlick the Windows icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen, and then without clicking anything else, type the word “ store.” If you’re a serious data scientist, learn the nuts and bolts of Anaconda at Real Python’s “Setting Up Python for Machine Learning on Windows” Note: This tutorial is aimed at non-programmers who just want to edit a few CSV files with Python. Therefore, I’ll cover hand-installing a few simple packages as in my older tutorial.
The Windows installation of Python is pretty stripped down, like that of Miniconda, and similarly doesn’t require admin rights to one’s computer.
My beloved Spyder IDE suddenly stopped working on me, and I needed to install Python + Pandas on a new computer anyway, so I decided to explore installing Python (and various packages I use with it such as Pandas) out of the Windows Store, executing code in VSCode as an IDE.
