© Alexander Lancaster and Gordon Webster 2019
A. Lancaster, G. WebsterPython for the Life Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4523-1_1

1. Getting Started with Python

Setting Yourself Up to Use Python
Alexander Lancaster1  and Gordon Webster1
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Amber Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
 

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Attached to the small bottle was a label bearing a set of instructions that said simply “DRINK ME.”

“Hmmm. A self-installing executable that’s also self-documenting,” muttered Alice to herself as she examined the bottle. “Once I open this, who knows exactly how it will change things, and there’s probably no easy way to go back to the way things were beforehand,” ...

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