Installing Python
The first step in setting up your development environment is to install Python. If you have already installed Python on your system, you can skip to the next section, but do make sure that your Python installation includes Python 3, which is required by most NLP libraries. You can check your Python version by entering the following command in a command-line window, and the version will be displayed:
$ python --version
Note that if you have both Python 2 and Python 3 installed, you may have to run the python3 –version command to check the Python 3 version. If you don’t have Python 3, you’ll need to install it. Some NLP libraries require not just Python 3 but Python 3.7 or greater, so if your version of Python is older than 3.7, you’ll need to update it.
Python runs on almost any operating system that you choose to use, including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Python can be downloaded for your operating system from http://www.python...
