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.

You can run this at the command line (we called it iprocess.py): python iprocess.py 4 33 2 python iprocess.py --sum 10 20 30 In the first case, the program will select and print the largest number.