November 2009
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
18h 41m
English
This chapter provides enough information to get you started writing Python programs. We strongly recommend that you install Python if you have not already done so, so that you can get hands-on experience to reinforce what you learn here. (The Introduction explains how to obtain and install Python on all major platforms; 4
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This chapter’s first section shows you how to create and execute Python programs. You can use your favorite plain text editor to write your Python code, but the IDLE programming environment discussed in this ...