New Python student needs help with execution

[c me]

I installed 2.7.9 on a Win8.1 machine. The Coursera instructor did a simple 
install then executed Python from a file in which he'd put a simple hello world 
script.  My similar documents folder cannot see the python executable.  How do 
I make this work?
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