"Speakers: Philip James, Asheesh Laroia This talk discusses how the Python interpreter starts, from the perspective of the operating system (OS). Together, we will see the ins & outs of processes: fork(), exec(), stdin, and stdout. It focuses on OS concepts and requires no background knowledge, using analogies to Python data structures. (The talk does not discuss Python’s own initialization, such as site.py or global variables.) Slides can be found at: https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2015 and https://github.com/PyCon/2015-slides"