Quick Guide to Python

This quide is intended to allow users to install Python, to run Python as a computer program and then to check whether the run has completed as expected.

It does not describe (except in passing) any information about the physics of Python, the details of a particular wind model, or criteria for evaluating whether the inputs correspond to a plausible model of an astrophysical system.

• Installation – how to install Python from github and to run a model

• Creating the input file for Python – Simple instructions how to set up a model interactively

• The files produced by Python – A quick look at the output files

• Evaluation of the results – A discussion of whether a model has run as required, or not