In the first lesson we introduced Python, the CPython interactive interpreter, and wrote a very simple program. This lesson we'll look at choosing a good editor, rewriting our previous program into a script and Python's basic types.

Python is a well known and increasingly popular programming language, used in both quick scripts designed for a particular task and large complicated applications. Python is also increasingly being used in web applications, thanks to the recent proliferation of frameworks like Pyramid, Django, WebCore, Flask, and others.

Over the next few weeks I will be introducing the language, how to program in it, and some popular frameworks and toolkits used to develop applications. I will be basing these tutorials on a really great, free eBook called A Byte of Python (make sure you download the version for Python 2.x).