# Steem Developer Portal

### PY: Getting Started

The official Steem library for Python is `steem-python`. It comes with a BIP38 encrypted wallet and a practical CLI utility called `steempy`.

Full, runnable src of Getting Started can be downloaded as part of the PY tutorials repository.

The library was designed to allow Python developers to easily access the network as well as build utilities and applications.

Currently steem-python documentation is generated in the standard pydoc format.

Documentation is available at: Official steem-python Docs.

#### Dev requirements

In our Python tutorials we recommend developers to be familiar with following requirements/libraries.

- Python developer should be familiar with Python 3.x and above

- Medium knowledge of package manager `pip/pip3` and/or `pipenv` is required, since our tutorials will be using package manager to get started quickly.

- Terminal (Linux/Mac) or Cmd (Windows command prompt) knowledge is also required, since most python tutorials will only work with terminal and print out result in different formats.

- Python environment path should be set up properly so that terminal can access proper python library without conflicts.

- Additional and optional packages that we might use: setuptools, brew

To get started with Python, you can also check official Python installation and Python tutorial.

To get started with our Python tutorials, checkout our first tutorial here.