I'm really new ... sorry if I ask a dumb question. I downloaded Python 2.5.6. and I don't know what to do now. What do I open, etc. I am using a MacBook laptop, if that is relevant at all.

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anonymous · Answer

If you go to this link if will walk you through everything you will need. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming/Getting_Python

anonymous · Answer

On second thought use this one http://www.python.org/download/mac/

anonymous · Answer

I'm also using macbook pro v10.6. Python and IDLE comes with it pre-installed. Go to Applications/Utilities/ and click on Terminal. Type python on the shell prompt and it gives you the interpreter in interactive mode, showing three greater than signs(>>>) .

anonymous · Answer

you need to find the application called IDLE, once found I put it in my dock so I dont need to open the terminal anymore. when you open IDLE it will be a command line (where your programs will run). click File, then New Window to begin typing a new program, and save it somewhere as filename.py and to run it do fn F5 (function F5). hopefully this helps!