Installing Python

Over the course of this book, all of the exercises will be shown on a Linux OS. In my case, I am using Ubuntu 16.04. You can choose any variant you prefer. We will be using python3 for our exercises, which can be installed as follows:

sudo apt-get install python3
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

The second command installs pip, which is Python's package manager. All open source Python libraries that do not come as part of the standard installation can be installed with the help of pip. We will be exploring how to use pip in the upcoming sections.