Setting up your environment

In this chapter, we will mostly work locally in an IDE; I would like to help walk you through setting that environment up.

Python

You have several options for installing Python. Some directions are the following:

• https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv or https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win for Windows
• Using the system Python tool

Type the following:

python --version

You will be presented with a version of Python 3.5 or above, ideally.

venv

We can install and set up our virtual environment using the following:

python3 -m pip install virtualenv
python3 -m venv chapter2
chapter2\Scripts\activate
pip install <package>
deactivate

Graphviz

Graphviz is a very common and widely used graphic drawing tool. Its commonly used to create programmatically generated charts and diagrams.

Installations are available for every major OS here: https://graphviz.org/.

Workflow initialization

For this chapter, all Python code...