How can I find where Python is installed on Windows?

Question

I want to find out my Python installation path on Windows. For example:

C:\Python25

How can I find where Python is installed?

Answer 1

In your Python interpreter, type the following commands:

>>> import os
>>> import sys
>>> os.path.dirname(sys.executable)
'C:\\Python25'

Also, you can club all these and use a single line command. Open cmd and enter following command

python -c "import os, sys; print(os.path.dirname(sys.executable))"

Answer 2

If you have Python in your environment variable then you can use the following command in cmd:

 where python

or for Unix enviroment

 which python

command line image :

Answer 3

It would be either of

• C:\Python36
• C:\Users\(Your logged in User)\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36

Answer 4

If you need to know the installed path under Windows without starting the python interpreter, have a look in the Windows registry.

Each installed Python version will have a registry key in either:

• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\versionnumber\InstallPath
• HKCU\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\versionnumber\InstallPath

In 64-bit Windows, it will be under the Wow6432Node key:

• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Python\PythonCore\versionnumber\InstallPath

Answer 5

Simple way is

1) open CMD
2) type >>where python

Answer 6

On my windows installation, I get these results:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.executable
'C:\\Python26\\python.exe'
>>> sys.platform
'win32'
>>>

(You can also look in sys.path for reasonable locations.)

Answer 7

Its generally

'C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python-version'

or try using (in cmd )

where python

Answer 8

In the sys package, you can find a lot of useful information about your installation:

import sys
print sys.executable
print sys.exec_prefix

I'm not sure what this will give on your Windows system, but on my Mac executable points to the Python binary and exec_prefix to the installation root.

You could also try this for inspecting your sys module:

import sys
for k,v in sys.__dict__.items():
    if not callable(v):
        print "%20s: %s" % (k,repr(v))

Answer 9

If you have the py command installed, which you likely do, then just use the --list-paths argument to the command:

py --list-paths

Example output:

Installed Pythons found by py Launcher for Windows
-3.8-32 C:\Users\cscott\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\python.exe *
-2.7-64 C:\Python27\python.exe

The * indicates the currently active version for scripts executed using the py command.

Answer 10

If You want the Path After successful installation then first open you CMD and type python or python -i

It Will Open interactive shell for You and Then type

import sys

sys.executable

Hit enter and you will get path where your python is installed ...

Answer 11

To know where Python is installed you can execute where python in your cmd.exe.

Answer 12

You can search for the "environmental variable for you account". If you have added the Python in the path, it'll show as "path" in your environmental variable account.

but almost always you will find it in "C:\Users\%User_name%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python_version"

the 'AppData' folder may be hidden, make it visible from the view section of toolbar.

Answer 13

If anyone needs to do this in C# I'm using the following code:

static string GetPythonExecutablePath(int major = 3)
{
    var software = "SOFTWARE";
    var key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(software);
    if (key == null)
        key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(software);
    if (key == null)
        return null;

    var pythonCoreKey = key.OpenSubKey(@"Python\PythonCore");
    if (pythonCoreKey == null)
        pythonCoreKey = key.OpenSubKey(@"Wow6432Node\Python\PythonCore");
    if (pythonCoreKey == null)
        return null;

    var pythonVersionRegex = new Regex("^" + major + @"\.(\d+)-(\d+)$");
    var targetVersion = pythonCoreKey.GetSubKeyNames().
                                        Select(n => pythonVersionRegex.Match(n)).
                                        Where(m => m.Success).
                                        OrderByDescending(m => int.Parse(m.Groups[1].Value)).
                                        ThenByDescending(m => int.Parse(m.Groups[2].Value)).
                                        Select(m => m.Groups[0].Value).First();

    var installPathKey = pythonCoreKey.OpenSubKey(targetVersion + @"\InstallPath");
    if (installPathKey == null)
        return null;

    return (string)installPathKey.GetValue("ExecutablePath");
}

Answer 14

Go to C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36 if it is not there then open console by windows+^R Then type cmd and hit enter type python if installed in your local file it will show you its version from there type the following import os import sys os.path.dirname(sys.executable)

Answer 15

This worked for me: C:\Users\Your_user_name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python

My currently installed python version is 3.7.0

Hope this helps!

Answer 16

if you still stuck or you get this

C:\\\Users\\\name of your\\\AppData\\\Local\\\Programs\\\Python\\\Python36

simply do this replace 2 \ with one

C:\Users\akshay\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36

Answer 17

I installed 2 and 3 and had the same problem finding 3. Fortunately, typing path at the windows path let me find where I had installed it. The path was an option when I installed Python which I just forgot. If you didn't select setting the path when you installed Python 3 that probably won't work - unless you manually updated the path when you installed it. In my case it was at c:\Program Files\Python37\python.exe

Answer 18

If you use anaconda navigator on windows, you can go too enviornments and scroll over the enviornments, the root enviorment will indicate where it is installed. It can help if you want to use this enviorment when you need to connect this to other applications, where you want to integrate some python code.