lets open your python editor and type the following world listing hello world python example [end of examplean extremely useful command is help()which enters help functionality to explore all the stuff python lets you doright from the interpreter press to close the help window and return to the python prompt you can use python in different wayseither in "interactivemode or in "scriptingmode the python program that you have installed will by default act as something called an interpreter an interpreter takes text commands and runs them as you enter them very handy for trying things out yo can run python interactively in different ways either using the console which is part of the operating system or the python idle and the python shell which is part of the basic python installation from python shell in interactive mode you use the python shell as seen in figure here you type one and one command at time after the "sign in the python shell world running python from the console console (or "terminal"or 'command prompt'is textual way to interact with your os (operating systemthe python program that you have installed will by default act as something called an interpreter an interpreter takes text commands and runs them as you enter them very handy for trying things out below we see how we can run python from the console which is part of the os