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Building "Hello World"

Building "Hello World" - Python Tutorial

From the course: Learning Python

Building "Hello World"

- [Instructor] All right, welcome to part one of the course. It is time to start learning and writing some actual Python code. So before we fire up our text editor and just start diving in, we're first going to use Python's interpreted mode in the command line interface to see how easy it is to write and run Python. So this mode is called the Python REPL, which stands for read, evaluate, print, loop. Now this might surprise you, but there's a Python Interpreter built into the Python website itself. So let's go to python.org, which is where I am now, and I'm going to start up the Python Interpreter. Can you guess where it is? Go ahead, guess. Okay, I'll show you where it is. So this little icon right here, if you click on it, you see how it says Launch Interactive Shell? I'm going to click on this, and then right here in our browser, we don't got to install anything. We get a nice Python Interpreter that we can just start working with. So in this mode, I can just simply type some…

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