Setting Up Your Environment and Using This Book’s Companion Docker Image

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First, let’s set up your machine so you are able to run Python. Here are a few different approaches you can take:

1. ✪ Run Python using this book’s companion Docker image (recommended):[3]

• Install Docker.[4]
• Execute docker run — pull=always — interactive — tty — rm ghcr.io/davidmuller/intuitive-python-book/intuitive-python-book:latest /bin/bash
• You are now logged into an ephemeral container with an appropriate version of Python and all this book’s source code downloaded into the current working directory.
• If you are reading a paper version of this book or using a digital reader that makes copy/pasting the preceding docker run command difficult, visit the homepage of this book’s companion Docker image for an easier copy/pasting medium.[5]

1. Run Python on macOS or Linux:

• Type python3 — version to see if you have Python 3.7 or newer, else download one.[6]

1. Run Python on Windows:

• Type python3 — version to see if you have Python 3.7 or newer, else download one.[7]
• ⚠ Warning: the examples in this book work best when run using options 1 or 2. For the…