[ale] Learning Python

[Paul Cartwright]

On 08/10/2015 09:39 AM, leam hall wrote:
> Raj, don't worry about getting a certificate, just watch the videos
> and follow along. You don't need to book, but it helps those of us who
> learn better from books.
>
> I promise you, work through the class and you'll be a decent Python
> programmer. 
mmm, I see that the first thing is to download python 3.. and it shows
Window, Mac OS, and... source, no linux..


  Alternate Python packages for Linux

You can purchase ActivePython
<http://www.activestate.com/activepython/> (commercial and community
versions, including scientific computing modules, not open source)

but you can download python-3 source...

./configure, make, make install, we have python..
 python3
Python 3.4.3 (default, Aug 10 2015, 09:59:19)
[GCC 5.1.1 20150618 (Red Hat 5.1.1-4)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>


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