Installing Python on Linux and Mac OS X

Luckily for us, Python comes pre-installed on most versions of Mac OS X and many flavors of Linux (both the latest versions of Ubuntu and Fedora come with Python 2.7 or later versions out of the box). Thus, we really don't have a lot to do for this recipe, except check whether everything is installed.

For this book, we will work with Python 3.4.0.