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.

How to Run Cmd.exe From Python. While it is not common to need to call Windows functions within Python code, you may occasionally need to do so in order to make a program work correctly.

This is what tells the command line which folders it needs to look in when searching for the file. If Python isn’t added to PATH, then you would need to point CMD directly to the Python.exe and ...