so there you have itthree ways of running python codethe ipython/jupyter notebookwhich we'll use throughout this book just because it' good learning toolyou can also run scripts as standalone script filesand you can also execute python code in the interactive command prompt so there you have itand there you have three different ways of running python code and experimenting and running things in production so keep that in mind we'll be using notebooks throughout the rest of this bookbut againyou have those other options when the time comes summary in this we started our journey with building the most important stepping stone of the book installing enthought canopy we then moved to installing other libraries and installing different types of packages we also grasped some of the basics of python with the help of various python code we covered basic concepts such as moduleslists along with tuplesand eventually moved on to understanding more of python basics with better knowledge of functions and looping in python finallywe started with running some of our simple python scripts in the next we will move on to understand concepts of statistics and probability