Chapter 1. Current Status of Python
Python is good for developers.
No matter what operating system you or your customers are running, it will work. Unless you are coding platform-specific things, or using a platform-specific library, you can work on Linux and deploy on other systems, for example. However, that's not uncommon anymore (Ruby, Java, and many other languages work in the same way). Combined with the other qualities that we will discover throughout this book, Python becomes a smart choice for a company's primary development language.
This book is focused on the latest version of Python, 3.5, and all code examples are written in this version of the language unless another version is explicitly mentioned. Because this release is not yet ...
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