getting your own copy of python in this obtaining copy of python for your system performing the python installation finding and using python on your system ensuring your installation works as planned reating applications requires that you have another applicationunless you really want to get low level and write applications in machine code - decidedly difficult experience that even true programmers avoid if at all possible if you want to write an application using the python programming languageyou need the applications required to do so these applications help you work with python by creating python codeproviding help information as you need itand letting you run the code you write this helps you obtain copy of the python applicationinstall it on your hard drivelocate the installed applications so that you can use themand test your installation so that you can see how it works downloading the version you need every platform (combination of computer hardware and operating system softwarehas special rules that it follows when running applications the python application hides these details from you you type code that runs on any platform that python supportsand the python applications translate that code into something the platform can understand howeverin order for the translation to take placeyou must have version of python that works on your particular platform python supports these platformsadvanced ibm unix (aixamiga research os (aros