Python Notes - University of Chicago

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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.

Python is an interpreted language, which means you just type in plain text to an interpreter, and things happen. There is no compilation step, as in languages such as c or FORTRAN. To start up the Python interpreter,just type python from the command line on climate. You’ll get a prompt, and can start typing in python commands.

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