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Contents Preface i Contents 2. 1 Getting Started 3. Basic Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Using xterms and logging in to the server . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. About the Python Shell and idle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. Running Python Locally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. Fun with Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. Basic operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. Lists, tuples and strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Program control: Looping, conditionals and functions . . . . . 12. Progressing in Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16. Writing your own modules and executable scripts.

specific instructions below apply most closely to Unix workstations. The necessary skills for using the default setup are: • Logging in to a Linux server from a workstation on the network. • Setting things up for the Linux machine to display its graphics on the work-station you are sitting at, using the X windowing system.

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