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On 11/06/2015 05:50, c me wrote:
> I installed 2.7.9 on a Win8.1 machine. The Coursera instructor did a simple install then executed Python from a file in which he'd put a simple hello world script.  My similar documents folder cannot see the python executable.  How do I make this work?
>

I'm not sure what you're asking but this 
https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html should help.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence