

In Mac OS, the installer handles the path details. The path variable is named as PATH in Unix or Path in Windows (Unix is case-sensitive Windows is not). This variable contains information available to the command shell and other programs.

The path is stored in an environment variable, which is a named string maintained by the operating system. Hence, the operating systems provide a search path that lists the directories that it searches for executables.

Programs and other executable files can be in many directories. Python Documentation Website − Setting up PATH The documentation is available in HTML, PDF and PostScript formats. You can download Python documentation from the following site. The most up-to-date and current source code, binaries, documentation, news, etc., is available on the official website of Python − Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC installer − python-3.5.1-macosx10.5.pkgĭouble click this package file and follow the wizard instructions to install.On Ubuntu Linux, Python 3 is installed using the following command from the terminal.ĭownload Gzipped source tarball from Python's download URL − ĭownload Mac OS installers from this URL − Linux platformĭifferent flavors of Linux use different package managers for installation of new packages. For versions 3.0 to 3.4.x Windows XP is acceptable. Note − In order to install Python 3.5.1, minimum OS requirements are Windows 7 with SP1. The following different installation options are available. Getting Python Windows platformīinaries of latest version of Python 3 (Python 3.5.1) are available on this download page Open a terminal window and type "python" to find out if it is already installed and which version is installed. Even though Python 2 is available for many other OSs, Python 3 support either has not been made available for them or has been dropped. Python 3 is available for Windows, Mac OS and most of the flavors of Linux operating system.
