We will use Python 2.6.
You can do assignments in 2.5 or 2.7, but the assignments will be graded in 2.6.
Do not do assignments in Python 3.0 or later. They are quite different from Python 2.x.
Windows
Download the installer here.
Run the installer.
Set the PATH
environment variable to include C:\Python26
so that you can invoke Python from the command line.
Ubuntu
Open up a shell.
Run the following commands
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python
Mac
Snow Leopard comes with Python 2.6, so you don’t need to install.
If you don’t have Snow Leopard, please consider upgrading. You had the money to buy a Mac, right?