Python for Secret Agents

Confirming our tools

To be sure we have a working Python tool, it's best to check things from the command prompt. We're going to do a lot of our work using the command prompt. It involves the least overhead and is the most direct connection to Python.

The Python 3.3 program shows a startup message that looks like this:

MacBookPro-SLott:Secret Agent's Python slott$ python3
Python 3.3.4 (v3.3.4:7ff62415e426, Feb  9 2014, 00:29:34)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
>>>

We've shown the operating system's prompt (MacBookPro-SLott:Secret Agent's Python slott$), the command we entered (python3), and the response from Python.

Python provides three lines of introduction followed ...