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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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