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Python for Secret Agents

You're reading from   Python for Secret Agents Analyze, encrypt, and uncover intelligence data using Python, the essential tool for all aspiring secret agents

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980420
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
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A secret agent needs a computer that they have administrative privileges over. We'll be installing additional software. Without the administrative password, they may have trouble installing Python 3, Pillow, or BeautifulSoup.

For agents using Windows, the packages we're looking at adding come prebuilt.

For agents using Linux, the developer tools are required. Linux has a complete suite of developer tools that are common. The Gnu C Compiler (GCC) is the backbone of these tools.

For agents using Mac OS X, the developer tool, Xcode (https://developer.apple.com/xcode/), is required. We'll also need to install a tool called homebrew (http://brew.sh) to help us add the Linux packages to Mac OS X.

Python 3 is available from the Python download page at https://www.python.org/download.

We'll download and install several things besides Python 3.3:

From this, we'll see how extensible Python is. Almost anything an agent might need may already be written and available through the Python Package Index (PyPi), which can be downloaded from https://pypi.python.org/pypi.

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