From experience, the local installation of an appropriate Pythonenvironment can sometimes prove difficult for someone who isjust starting out in the programming world. Therefore, it is recom‐mended that you do not spend too much time at the beginning oninstalling Python locally if you face any issues. Rather, make use ofthe Quant Platform and later on, with some more experience, youcan still return and install Python on your local machine

One of the benefits of Python is that it is an open source language, which holds truefor the absolute majority of important packages as well. This allows for easy installa‐tion of the language and required packages on all major operating systems, such asmacOS, Windows, and Linux. There are only a few major packages that are requiredfor the code of this book and finance in general in addition to a basic Pythoninterpreter