Interested in learning Python? Jack Wallen takes you through your first steps in building a simple application to take user input and write it to a file.

The idea is pretty simple. Nearly all command line Python programs use argparse to simplify picking options and arguments off the command line as well as providing some help.

The Windows version of the Python interpreter can be run from the command line the same way it’s run in other operating systems, by typing python or python3 at the prompt. But there’s a ...

You can also create Python scripts and run them from the command prompt. Microsoft Store version of Python 3.7 is very basic but it's good enough to run the simple scripts.