Python noob having a little trouble with strings

[Christopher Reimer]

On Oct 27, 2017, at 1:49 AM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-usenet3 at hjp.at> wrote:
> 
> BTW, I find it hard to believe that PyCharm for the Mac "comes with"
> Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is quite old. The Linux version isn't bundled
> with a python interpreter and just uses whatever is already installed on
> the machine. I guess it's the same for the Mac: Your version of MacOS
> happens to include Python 2.6, so this is what PyCharm uses.

I find it hard to believe that a professor would recommend downloading an IDE at the start of an intro class. Students usually start off with a text editor.

Chris R.