# LED Shim

**URL:** https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/led-shim/16098
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 2, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/led-shim/16098 "2021-02-02T12:38:39Z")
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### Author: ![boster316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@boster316](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/boster316)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/led-shim/16098/1 "2021-02-02T12:38:39Z")

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I have just installed the LED Shim and followed instructions to install the software,  
I am not familiar with Python, there is an examples sub directory with some files with a .py extension, how do i run these files to get the led’s working?

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### Author: ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/led-shim/16098/2 "2021-02-02T12:55:49Z")

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You can open them up and run them from the Thonny IDE. It’s included with PiOS.  
[Thonny, Python IDE for beginners](https://thonny.org/)