Install & Get Started

How to install Ask.

Setup a Development Environment for Ask.

We recommend that you always create a Python virtual environment for your Ask projects. This way you can always use the correct version of Ask for every project. If you use it globally and then upgrade Ask, previous features might break. You can learn more about Ask's versioning system here, and more about virtual environments here.

• Create a new folder.

• Create a new Python virtual environment:

  • $ python3 -m venv venv

• Activate it:

  • $ source venv/bin/activate

• Install Ask.

  • $ pip install ask-lang

• Create a .ask file to hold your app.

• Run it with:

  • $ ask [your app].ask

We recommend that you use pipx to install Ask if you want to use it globally, but you can also use pip to intall it without a virtual environment.