python basics part if you already know pythonyou can probably skip the next two sections howeverif you need refresheror if you haven' done python beforeyou'll want to go through these there are few quirky things about the python scripting language that you need to knowso let' dive in and just jump into the pool and learn some python by writing some actual code like said beforein the requirements for this bookyou should have some sort of programming background to be successful in this book you've coded in some sort of languageeven if it' scripting languagejavascripti don' care whether it is ++javaor somethingbut if you're new to pythoni' going to give you little bit of crash course here ' just going to dive right in and go right into some examples in this section there are few quirks about python that are little bit different than other languages you might have seenso just want to walk through what' different about python from other scripting languages you may have worked withand the best way to do that is by looking at some real examples let' dive right in and look at some python code