Using the Read-Evaluate-Print Loop (REPL)
Once we have installed Python 3, we can do some minimal interaction with Python to assure ourselves that things are working. In the long run, we'll use a number of other tools to create Python programs. To start out, we'll interact directly on the command line.
Python's Read-Evaluate-Print Loop (REPL) is the foundation for Python programming. More sophisticated things—such as writing application scripts or web servers—are essentially the same as interaction with the REPL: the Python program reads statements from our application script file or web server script file and evaluates those statements.
This fundamental rule is one of the very appealing features of Python. We can write sophisticated scripts, or ...
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