Welcome to the wonderful world of Python!

These are the supporting files to my blog post found here: http://timmyreilly.com/python-introduction/

Supporting slides can be found here

#Setting Up your Dev Environment

Before we get started learning and buildling with Python we need to setup our development environment.

1. Install Python
2. Install virtualenv
3. Install virtualenvwrapper or virtualenvwrapper-win
4. Create a virtual environment

1. Install Python

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2. Install virtualenv

$ pip install virtualenv

3. Install virtualenvwrapper or virtualenvwrapper-win

virtualenv wrappers make it easy to manage multiple environments and can make iterating on project easy.

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Mac

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4. Create a virtual environment

$ mkvirtualenv helloworld

cd into root of project

$ setprojectdir .

$ deactivate

$ workon helloworld

5. Install a package

We're going to install requests

$ pip install requests