Here are some free Python file viewer and Python file editor software to help you open PY files on Windows 11/10 PC.

Take control of multiple Python installations in Windows with the py launcher, available as part of a standard Python installation.

For one, there is no native mechanism for compiling a Python program into a standalone executable package. To be fair, the original use case for Python never called for standalone redistributables.

For example, the following Python command could be entered into Notepad, saved to a batch file named "py.bat," and executed: python hello.py ...