written by lisa tagliaferri python is flexible and versatile programming language suitable for many use caseswith strengths in scriptingautomationdata analysismachine learningand back-end development first published in the python development team was inspired by the british comedy group monty python to make programming language that was fun to use python is the most current version of the language and is considered to be the future of python this tutorial will help get your remote server or local computer set up with python programming environment if you already have python installedalong with pip and venvfeel free to move onto the next prerequisites this tutorial will be based on working with linux or unix-like (*nixsystem and use of command line or terminal environment both macos and specifically the powershell program of windows should be able to achieve similar results step -installing python many operating systems come with python already installed you can check to see whether you have python installed by opening up terminal window and typing the followingpython -