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Chapter 1: A Python Primer
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Summary
This chapter provided a brief tour of the Python language, including the following highlights:
How to get up and running with Python
Python ’ s lexical structure
Operators, expressions, and statements
Iteration and decision - making
Functions and modules
Classes and object - oriented programming
Of course, there is much more to the Python language than what this short chapter has outlined.
Much of it you ll discover as you work through the projects in this book.
Let ’ s get started!
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