Natty Narwhal, the latest version of Ubuntu, **comes with Python 2.7 out of the box**. Python 3.0 can be installed and run with the following commands::

Installing setuptools and pip

While Python has an extensive standard library, the set of packages available from the Internet is even more extensive. In order to install them easily, we'll install the ``setuptools`` package and ``pip`` installer::

(You could get ``pip`` by itself by typing ``sudo easy_install pip``, but it comes with ``virtualenv``, which you'll most likely use later anyway.)

Now, most Python packages can be installed using the ``pip`` command. For example, if we wanted to install Django::

A full list of ``pip``'s capabilities is available by typing ``pip --help``.