You can run Python in PowerShell the same way as from the command bar.

Run PowerShell Command as Admin

First, you have to start PowerShell as Admin. To do it, just click the magnifying glass on the Windows Toolbar and enter “powershell”.

Next, right-click the icon and run it as administrator.

Run Python code

Now, when you have the PowerShell window open, you can start the Python interpreter by typing “python”.

Run Python Script

In the previous section, you saw a simple text message that was executed in the python interpreter, using PowerShell.

To leave the Python interpreter, press Ctrl + Z and then Enter.

Navigate to the directory where your script is located and use this command:

It will run the script that is inside the script.py file.

You can also run a script without changing the current dictionary, by specifying an absolute path to a file. You can use both forward-slash (/) and backslash (\).

Run Script with Arguments

When you run Excel scripts, you can pass arguments from the command line. Take a look at this code from the sum.py file:

It takes two numbers from the command line (sys.argv[1] and sys.argv[1]) and sum them returning text and the addition result. sys.argv[0] is the first argument of our entry, which is the name of a script (sum.py).

When we develop applications, the problem we often face is a string to datetime conversion. We have to deal with different formats and time zones. Sometimes we need to convert dates and times to human-readable format, and vice versa.

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You can pass a list as an argument of Python function the same way as any other type and it will be the same type inside the function.

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If you need to check, whether a particular word is a word in the English dictionary, you can do it in Python.

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With a few lines of code, you can read a file in Python.

You have to specify an absolute path to the file you want to read, or you can specify the current working directory.

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You can create a Python file directly from the terminal. Follow these steps to do it:

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Subscript and superscript are important when you are dealing with different types of formulas. They are useful in math, chemistry, etc.

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This lesson is about the Python module called pickle. I’ll tell you what is pickle and how you can use it in Python.

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The append method adds an element at the end of the list. No function will add an element at the beginning of a list, but there is a method called insert, that you can use to insert an element in any place you want.

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To return the day of the week from a string, you have to import the datetime module and run this code:

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