Getting and Using Python

Summary

The Python environment changes constantly. As the Python community continues to improve Python, the language experiences breaking changes—those that create new behaviors while reducing backward compatibility. These changes might not be major, but they are a distraction that will reduce readers' ability to discover deep learning programming techniques. They use the command line to install Anaconda on Linux; no graphical installation option exists. Anaconda comes with a graphical installation application for Windows, so getting a good install means using a wizard, much as they would for any other installation. Before they can perform the install, they must download a copy of the Mac software from the Continuum Analytics site. The chapter helps the readers to start with Notebook so that they can see how the whole repository concept works. They want to use the notebook to hold an application that they can use to discover the inner workings of deep learning.