Setting up Python

• 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?

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