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+print "Hello World!"
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+Learn Python the Hard Way
+
+https://itbook.store/books/9780134123486
+
+This is not any kind of official advertisement or endorsement.  This is merely the link provided from within the book itself.
+
+I just realized this is a python 2 tutorial, I may come back to this =(.   Moving onto Python3