# Running existing Python Files

**URL:** <https://forum.anaconda.com/t/running-existing-python-files/47696>\
**Category:** Product Help\
**Created:** [December 20, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/running-existing-python-files/47696 "2022-12-20T19:42:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ronnie\_Gourgeot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/0075a9/32.png) [@Ronnie\_Gourgeot](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Ronnie_Gourgeot)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/running-existing-python-files/47696/1 "2022-12-20T19:42:28Z")

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I have been using Atom since I started learning Python a few short years ago.

I have downloaded Anaconda but I am having trouble figuring out how to run my existing python files.

I can open them in a kernal but they don’t run.

Can someone please suggest the simpliest tool to run existing, fairly simple python files?  
I don’t know where to begin.

Thanks in advance!