A note on IDEs
Just a few words about IDEs… To follow the examples in this book, you don't need one; any decent text editor will do fine. If you want to have more advanced features, such as syntax coloring and auto-completion, you will have to get yourself an IDE. You can find a comprehensive list of open-source IDEs (just Google "Python IDEs") on the Python website.
Fabrizio uses Visual Studio Code, from Microsoft. It's free to use and it provides an immense multitude of features, which one can expand by installing extensions.
After working for many years with several editors, including Sublime Text, this was the one that felt most productive to him.
Heinrich, on the other hand, is a hardcore Vim user. Although it might have a steep learning curve, Vim is a very powerful text editor that can also be extended with plugins. It also has the benefit of being installed in almost every system a software developer has to work on.
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