Jupyter notebook "download as python"

Question

I've been searching everywhere for this but somehow I can't seem to find it.

If you download code from Jupyter notebook and download it as python (.py),

then does the computer create a windows notepad for the .py file? (Yes I'm using windows not mac)

This is a pretty simple question but I really wish to know if this is a normal thing for windows...

When I download code in Jupyter notebook as python (.py), it is downloaded as a notepad.

Is this what it's supposed to do??

Answer 1

The problem is your default application for files is set as Notepad in windows. That's why it shows to open with Notepad. Since the file comes with *.py extension it will also consider to open in notepad because ultimately *.py is a file type. You can try open with option to open your favorite python editor to work on the file.