I have a friend who is interested in becoming a Python developer. He has some Python experience with CodeAcademy, but he of course wants to take this a step further and develop on his own computer. I figure I'd give him a few pointers, and I know this has been rehashed a million times, but what the hell, why not blog on it again. There are a few important things to learn besides the actual language itself. The first I am going to discuss is has to deal with installing packages, then followed up closely with Python's path trickery. Finally …

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