DevOps in Python: Infrastructure as Python

© Moshe Zadka 2019

Moshe ZadkaDevOps in Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4433-3_1

1. Installing Python

Moshe Zadka¹ 

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Belmont, CA, USA

 

Before we start using Python, we need to install it. Some operating systems, like Mac OS X and some Linux variants, have Python preinstalled. Those versions of Python, colloquially called “system Python,” often make poor defaults for people who want to develop in Python.

For one thing, the version of Python installed is often behind latest practices. For another, system integrators will often patch Python in ways that can lead to surprises later. For example, Debian-based Python is often missing modules like venv and ensurepip. Mac OS X Python links against a Mac shim around its native SSL library. What those ...