Interested in learning Python? Jack Wallen takes you through your first steps in building a simple application to take user input and write it to a file.

Let’s create a simple app that gets autocomplete queries for a seed keyword from the Google public API. Before beginning, create a folder on your machine, and name it what you want.

The most popular solution, and the most mature, is PyInstaller. PyInstaller doesn’t make the process of packaging a Python application totally painless, but it goes a long way.

It’s easy to automate the creation of Word documents with Quarto, a free, open-source technical publishing system that works with R, Python, and other programming languages.