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Click the yellow download button to download the latest version of Python: You should see something like this at the bottom of your browser: Once the download completes open the downloaded file.

You should see the following window: Just click continue.

And continue again:

Continue once more.

Agree to the terms.

Finally click install.

And done! You can exit the installer now.

Now let's verify everything is working properly. Start by opening your terminal. You can do this by pressing command + space at the same time. You will see a search box pop up.

Type terminal and press enter

You should see the following window: This is your terminal. We will be using this to run your python programs.

Let's start by typing python3 and pressing enter:

Now we can see our Python version

You should also see >>> This means you are in your python interpreter

Now we can run Python commands right from our Terminal! Let's try print("Hello World") and press enter

Now we can see that it gave us the output "Hello World"

To exit the Python interpreter type exit() and press enter

Now we are back to our normal Terminal

Congratulations you have successfully installed Python!