introduction to python environments and distributions python comes with many flavours and version python is open source and everybody can bundle and distribute python and different python packages python environment is context in which you run python code and includes python packages an environment consists of an interpretera library (typically the python standard library)and set of installed packages these components together determine which language constructs and syntax are validwhat operating-system functionality you can accessand which packages you can use you can have multiple python environments on your computer some of them arecpython distribution available from python org anaconda enthought canopy winpython etc it is easy to start using python by installing one of these python distributions