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Python on Mac or Linux - Python Tutorial
From the course: Intermediate Python for Non-Programmers
Python on Mac or Linux
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to be covering how to get Python up and running on your Mac or Linux computer. So if you have a Windows computer, you got everything you needed in the last video and you can go ahead and skip on to the next video. But assuming that you have a Mac or Linux computer, let's talk about how to get Python running. Now, this isn't to say that you can't just run Python in the browser. In our last course, Python for Non-Programmers, we did everything in the browser and you could continue to do that for this course. But I think there's some value in learning how to get Python running on your own machine so that if you're not connected to the internet or if you just want to do some things with some local files on your computer, we'll be covering that later in the course, you'll be able to do that. So the first step is to make sure that we have Python installed on our computer. Now, lots of modern computers already come with Python pre-installed but we…
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