Python on Windows is something that doesn’t really make sense.¹

However you may wish to do it anyway; perhaps you want to use Chrome webdriver in non-headless mode, in which can you can’t then run in in Linux in WSL, which is the sensible way to run Python on Windows.

For Python on Windows:

• Install the Python from python.org
  • If you’re not sure which version you want to download, it’s likely ‘Windows installer (64-bit)’
• Run cmd
• Run py --list-paths

You will get something like the below most likely

 -V:3.13 *        C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\python.exe

• To run a specific version of python on windows you can use e.g. py -V:3.13

• You can run this to check you get python and then type exit when you are done

• We can use this to get a venv in the current folder: py -V:3.13 -m venv venv

• Activate the venv and you’re off to the races: .\venv\Scripts\activate.bat

(venv) C:\Users\UserName\wherever>python
Python 3.13.2 (tags/v3.13.2:4f8bb39, Feb  4 2025, 15:23:48) [MSC v.1942 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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