Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python

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INSTALLING PYTHON

Topics Covered In This Chapter:
 Downloading and installing Python
 Downloading the Pyperclip module
 How to start IDLE
 Formatting used in this book
 Copying and pasting text

“Privacy in an open society also requires

cryptography. If I say something, I want it

heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the

content of my speech is available to the world, I

have no privacy.”

Eric Hughes, “A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto”, 1993

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The content of this chapter is very similar to the first chapter of Invent Your Own Computer
Games with Python. If you have already read that book or have already installed Python, you only
need to read the “Downloading pyperclip.py” section in this chapter.