The Python print command is simple, but right now it is just text. For the operating system to understand that the file should be read as a Python program, the programmer needs to save the file as ...

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.

But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally install them, all by way of one simple command.