Running Python scripts

Throughout this book, we'll be using the IPython/Jupyter Notebook format (which are .ipynb files) that we've been looking at so far, and it's a great format for a book like this because it lets me put little blocks of code in there and put a little text and things around it explaining what it's doing, and you can experiment with things live.

Of course, it's great from that standpoint, but in the real world, you're probably not going to be using IPython/Jupyter Notebooks to actually run your Python scripts in production, so let me just really briefly go through the other ways you can run Python code, and other interactive ways of running Python code as well. So it's a pretty flexible system. Let's take a look.