================================ Step 1: Install Python ================================ This guide will recommend that you install Python 3.x and work with it. There's an older version, Python 2.7, which is still in wide use. In my opinion there's a lot of 2.7 python dedication just because so much code exists to that version. For instance I have a client where 2.7 is used because it's on the servers to support a long succssful appllication in Python. If you can, though, go with the latest and greatest and start with Python 3.x Python 3.x --------------- Install Python 3.x * from Python site https://www.python.org/downloads/ * we're going to move toward the future and that's Python 3 .. admonition:: reStructuredText on this page The above list is created, in the source text, using a new line for each bullet, beginning with an * (asterisk). In the source there is a blank line between the title, Install Python 3.x, and that is required to create this bullet list. Look at the bottom of the page for a link that will allow you to see this page's, or any page's, markup source. There's a lot of documentation already in existence about installing Python. I'm not going to recreate more here. Go Bing it. I'm just fn' with you. Go Google it.