How to run Linux programs in a Windows 10 command prompt Last week we explained how you could launch Windows 10 programs within a WSL Linux distribution.

Open your Python program in your editor of choice. Go to the section of your code where you want to invoke the Windows command prompt application.

Interested in learning Python? Jack Wallen takes you through your first steps in building a simple application to take user input and write it to a file.

Students use version 4.4.0 of the Anaconda3 Python distribution and can run Python in the command line or through a Jupyter notebook from the browser.