That’s how to run a Python script in terminal or CMD. It’s a very straightforward process, but it’s extremely handy if you ever want to quickly carry out a bespoke task.

To run a Python script with the py launcher, simply substitute py and its command-line switches for python or python3. For instance, here is the command typically used to upgrade pip by running it ...

You can also invoke Python with the package as part of the environment it’s running in by typing, uv run python. You can then supplement this command with any number of additional switches or ...