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You can find many Python resources at the Python website, https://www.python.org. You can download the latest version of Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ (Version 3.8.0 as of October 14, 2019). Python is platform independent, software that can run on most if not all the latest operating systems/computing platforms. A platform is the combination of a physical device and an operating system. You can run the latest version of Python on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. You can find documentation for the latest version of Python (as well as for older versions) at https://docs.python.org/dev/. Table 1.1 lists the most recent versions of Python documentation that were available on the Python website as of November 22, 2019. Previous versions of documentation remain available online as well. The Python Package Index is a repository of software for the Python programming language located at https://pypi.org/.

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Lessons learned: In this section, we learned that Python is free and open-source software (FOSS) and that there are now more than 212,000 projects with packages written in Python that are available to use and modify in the Python Package Index. The goal of this book is to teach Python programming to those in the fields of social sciences and business to develop applications using Python packages for data analytics.