Python is an open source programming language created by a Dutch programmer named Guido van Rossum. Named after the British comedy group Monty Python, Python is a high-level, interpreted, open source language and is one of the most soughtafter and rapidly growing programming languages in the world today. It is also the language of preference for data science and machine learning.
Python 是一种开源编程语言，由荷兰程序员 Guido van Rossum 创建。Python 以英国喜剧团体 Monty Python 命名，是一种高级、解释型开源语言，也是当今世界上最受欢迎、发展最快的编程语言之一。它也是数据科学和机器学习的首选语言。
In this chapter, we first introduce the Jupyter notebook – a web application for running code in Python. We then cover the basic concepts in Python, including data types, operators, containers, functions, classes and file handling and exception handling, and standards for writing code and modules.
在本章中，我们首先介绍 Jupyter 笔记本–一个用于运行 Python 代码的网络应用程序。然后，我们将介绍 Python 的基本概念，包括数据类型、运算符、容器、函数、类、文件处理和异常处理，以及编写代码和模块的标准。
The code examples for this book have been written using Python version 3.7.3 and Anaconda version 4.7.10.
本书的代码示例是使用 Python 3.7.3 和 Anaconda 4.7.10 版本编写的。