Editor in python

You can write python code in any text editor like notepad,gedit or notepad++. While saving file make sure it is save with .py extension.

The list of popular free to use editors are as follow.

1. Vim : It is more popular among the Linux community. You can use it as general purpose editor. People use it for python,shell scripting,latex and many more programming language.

2. Sublime : It is cross platform editor. It has wide variety of plugin which can make it work as complete IDE.

There are complete IDE available for python development.

1. PyCharm : It is specifically build for python development.Basically it is a complete IDE.

2. eclipse : It has been used for multiple languages. But you can make it work as Python IDE. The only thing you have to do is to add the pydev plugin in the eclipse. Please check which pydev plugin version is compatible with your eclipse version else it will throw an error.

For the tutorial, we are not going to use any of the IDE, instead we will use the jupyter notebook. It is basically a notebook which open in a browser where you can create a python notebook and execute your python code there itself.And also you can save it on your hard disk and share you code with other as well.It is preferred way for testing your chunk of code. As our motive is to just create a tutorial then jupyter notebook will work great for us.

Lets see how to install jupyter notebook. Before installing please make sure you have insalled python in your system.

First install pip in your system which is kind of repository for python package. Once the pip is installed it will be easy to install any other python packages.

Follow the below steps to install pip.

Download the file from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
From command line go to the directory where this file is located.
Now if you are on linux system run the below command.

sudo python get-pip.py

It will ask you the sudo password to execute the script.

If you are on windows systems then open the cmd terminal with admin access. You can right click on cmd application and run it as administrator. After that just go to location where file is downloaded. And execute the below script.

python get-pip.py

Once the pip package it installed you can easily installed any python packages.

For windows run the below command with admin access
pip install jupyter

For Linux run the below command

sudo pip install jupyter

To check if the jupyter notebook is installed properly. Type the below command in the terminal.

jupyter notebook

If it is installed properly, it will open the notebook in the default browser. We will see how to use the notebook in the next tutorial.

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