Using a Python Interpreter You can choose to write your code in a text file, but how does it run? The Python interpreter reads the text file and runs it as Python code.

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While Microsoft's NASA lesson doesn't offer any actual lessons in Python programming, the company has previously released free video tutorials for those that do aim to learn Python.

To learn Python, the participants were assigned 10 45-minute online instruction sessions using the Codeacademy educational tool.