Appendix. Your development environment

As a Python developer, you need a suitable environment on your computer. The developer environment must cover a lot of ground. In general, it should include a set of tools with which you’re familiar and some ideas about how you will structure project directories. Depending on your computer, it might also include environment variables you’ve set up to help make things more automated and therefore useful.

You’ll find that what you’re about to create and configure is a good starting point on the way to building your own useful and powerful development environment. For those of you who already have a development environment you’re comfortable with, feel free to skim over this. However, be aware of any differences ...

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