Appendix Installing Python
This appendix covers
- Which versions of Python are available, and which to use
- Installing Python on your computer
Python is fairly portable software that can be compiled from source on most systems. Fortunately for you, Python is probably also available prebuilt for your system. This appendix will help you get set up with Python so you can run any of the code in this book from the command line.
Tip
If you’ve already installed a version of Python 3 on your computer, you’re in luck. There’s not much more to do here. Feel free to get back to reading, and follow along with the code in this book.
Note
If you install a version of Python 3, you will almost certainly need to use the python3
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