Fun with Python 3

A hands-on tutorial intended for learning Python3 by solving problems.

Problem Statement:

Python is an open source programming language. In 1991, Guido van Rossum made Python. It's code is open source and all development happens on GitHub.

Source code URL of Python: https://github.com/python/cpython

Github also provides a nice feature to show the contributors to any project.

Let's write a program to show

Top 10 contributors of CPython project with their names
Numbers of commits made by the contributors
Find list of contributors having the same number of commits

Let's Solve it

Prerequisites

Make sure you have Python3 is installed. Check by typing python3 in terminal.

[chandankumar@ironman ~]$ python3
Python 3.7.2 (default, Mar 21 2019, 10:09:12) 
[GCC 8.3.1 20190223 (Red Hat 8.3.1-2)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

If not then follow this link to install Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Follow these next steps to learn Python and then solve it

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Tutorial intended towards learning Python3