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1. Getting Familiar with Python

Gayathri Rajagopalan1  
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Bangalore, India
 

Python is an open source programming language created by a Dutch programmer named Guido van Rossum. Named after the British comedy group Monty Python, Python is a high-level, interpreted, open source language and is one of the most sought-after and rapidly growing programming languages in the world today. It is also the language of preference for data science and machine learning.

In this chapter, we first introduce the Jupyter notebook – a web application for running code in Python. We then cover the basic concepts in Python, including data types, operators, ...

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