I can actually run the script in a command prompt. If I go to Tools, I can go to Canopy Command Prompt, and that will open up a command window that has all the necessary environment variables already in place for running Python. I can just type python test.py and run the script, and out comes my result:

So in the real world, you'd probably do something like that. It might be on a Crontab or something like that, who knows? But running a real script in production is just that simple. You can now close the command prompt.