Windows is the most commonly used end-user operating system for both private and enterprise users. More people will start their Python journey on a Windows PC rather than Linux or macOS, and the barrier to Python is lower when you begin to code in Python on Windows operating systems. This chapter contains hands-on Python exercises connecting selective Python concepts to general programming concepts, and some exercises will refer to real-world scenarios. The chapter will serve as a primer to the Python network automation scripting labs in the later chapters. Following ...