I’m working on learning Python, so in the process of doing that, I thought I’d put together a series of Python tutorial blog posts. Python is supposed to be easy to learn, so we’ll see.<\/p>\n
In order to use Python on your local machine, it needs to be downloaded from here<\/a>. There are 2 major versions available. The latest is 3.7.1. There is also a version 2.7.15. I’m going to focus on version 3, which is the result of cleaning up version 2 without regards to backwards compatibility. Version 2 will not have any new major releases and support will end in 2020. However, it is still in use by a lot of people. In fact, an online course I tried taking still used version 2. It is possible to install version 2 and version 3 on the same computer though. The trick to getting them both to work from the command line is to rename the executable of one version a different name than the other version. For example, I renamed python.exe for version 2 python2.exe. In a Windows command prompt, I can run version 3 by typing python. I can also run version 2 by typing python2 in the command prompt. Both versions need to have their directories added to the environment variable PATH setting.<\/p>\n For version 3, add the following to the environment variable PATH setting:<\/p>\n C:your path to python3Scripts<\/em><\/p>\n C:your path to python3<\/em><\/p>\n For version 2, add the following to the environment variable PATH setting:<\/p>\n C:your path to python2<\/em><\/p>\n To code in python, Anaconda<\/a> is a popular data science tool which comes packaged with Python. There are also online Python editors, such as https:\/\/www.onlinegdb.com<\/a> or https:\/\/repl.it\/repls\/SoftRashSearchengine.<\/a><\/p>\n For a quick way to run examples, try this site: https:\/\/repl.it\/languages\/python3<\/a><\/p>\n Python Tutorial Series Table of Contents:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/ul>\n