Setting Up

In the previous chapter, we took a brief tour of the Python programming language. In this chapter, we will look at various ways to download and install the correct version of Python, then we will see how to run Python code. In the last couple of sections of this chapter, we'll see how to begin taking advantage of the wide variety of publicly available Python code that can be found on the internet.

The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

• Downloading and installing Python
• Using the command line and the interactive shell
• Installing packages with pip
• Finding packages in the Python package index