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Installing Python

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Diving in

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Installing on Microsoft Windows

[Windows dialog: open file security warning]

[Python installer: select whether to install Python 3.1 for all users of this computer]

[Python installer: select destination directory]

[Python installer: customize Python 3.1]

[Python installer: disk space requirements]

[Python installer: removing Test Suite option will save 7908KB on your hard drive]

[Python installer: progress meter]

[Python installer: installation completed. Special Windows thanks to Mark Hammond, without whose years of freely shared Windows expertise, Python for Windows would still be Python for DOS.]

[Windows Python Shell, a graphical interactive shell for Python]

Installing on Mac OS X

[contents of Python installer disk image]

[Python installer: welcome screen]

[Python installer: information about supported architectures, disk space, and acceptable destination folders]

[Python installer: software license agreement]

[Python installer: dialog to accept license agreement]

[Python installer: standard install screen]

[Python installer: custom install screen]

[Python installer: dialog to enter administrative password]

[Python installer: progress meter]

[Python installer: install succeeded]

[contents of /Applications/Python 3.1/ folder]

[Mac Python Shell, a graphical interactive shell for Python]

[Python Launcher preferences window]

Installing on Ubuntu Linux

[Add/Remove: Canonical-maintained applications]

[Add/Remove: all open source applications]

[Add/Remove: select Python 3.0 package]

[Add/Remove: select IDLE for Python 3.0 package]

[Add/Remove: apply changes]

[Add/Remove: download progress meter]

[Add/Remove: installation progress meter]

[Add/Remove: new applications have been installed]

[Linux Python Shell, a graphical interactive shell for Python]

Installing on Other Platforms

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