These exercises go along with these slides
To see what version of Python you have:
python --version
To see where Python is installed:
which python
The easiest way to do this is with git (git is not the same thing as GitHub).
At the command line, type:
git clone https://github.com/cathydeng/python-for-newbies.git
cd python-for-newbies
Now you have all these files locally!
To see the packages you have installed:
pip freeze
To install everything in the requirements.txt file:
pip install -r requirements.txt
To get into the interactive shell:
python
Now you should see >>> at the beginning of each line. Here, you can type Python code & see output. For example:
my_name = 'Cathy'
'{} is learning Python!!'.format(my_name)
To get out of the interactive shell:
exit()
The interactive shell is useful for testing things out, but not for putting together tasks that you can re-run.
To run the example Python script:
python example_python_script.py