Python – Creating a “Hello World” program

This post shows you how to create your first simple program in Python that outputs or displays “Hello, World!“. It is often used to illustrate the basic syntax of the language for a working program.

1. Requirement

Make sure that you have installed Python in your machine. If you do not have it yet, you can download it on this page.

2. Create Hello World Program

• Let create your first Python file, called helloworld.py and then use print() function to output a string.

print("Hello, World!")

• Open your command line where you saved the file, and run the below command.

python helloworld.py

• If you did it right, you should see “Hello, World!” in your command line.

Hello, World!

Congratulations, you have created and executed your first Python program.