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DevOps in Python: Infrastructure as Python
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DevOps in Python: Infrastructure as Python

by Moshe Zadka
June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
245 pages
4h 57m
English
Apress
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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022
M. ZadkaDevOps in Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7996-0_1

1. Installing Python

Moshe Zadka1  
(1)
Belmont, CA, USA
 

Before you can use Python, you need to install it. Some operating systems, such as macOS 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.

The version of Python installed is often behind the latest practices. System integrators often patch Python in ways that can lead to surprises. For example, Debian-based Python is often missing modules like venv and ensurepip. macOS Python links against a Mac shim around its ...

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