opening the console on macos the standard console on macos is program called terminal open terminal by navigating to applicationsthen utilitiesthen double-click the terminal program you can also easily search for it in the system search tool in the top right the command line terminal is tool for interacting with your computer window will open with command line prompt messagesomething like thisl tue dec on computername username just type python at your consolehit enterand you should enter python' interpreter tue dec on hans- -work-macbook- hanshapython python anaconda apr [gcc compatible clang /release on darwin type more information the prompt on the last line indicates that you are now in an interactive python interpeter sessionalso called the "python shellthis is different from the normal terminal command promptyou can now enter some code for python to run tryp world se also figure figure console macos try other python commandse