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2. Introduction to the Python World

Fabio Nelli1  
(1)
Rome, Italy
 

The Python language, and the world around it, is made by interpreters, tools, editors, libraries, notebooks, and so on. This Python world has expanded greatly in recent years, enriching and taking forms that developers who approach it for the first time can sometimes find complicated and somewhat misleading. Thus, if you are approaching Python for the first time, you might feel lost among so many choices, especially about where to start.

This chapter gives you an overview of the entire Python world. You’ll first gain an ...

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