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These examples are based on the Csound Floss tutorials at this site.

There are other ways of using Python including using their modules, however I prefer using Python to create .csd files and then run them via command line (using inbuilt os module). Thus csound has to be installed as well as python.

Since Python can be used to create strings easily using complex logic, it can be used to create csound instruments and scores rather than only relying on csound programming opcodes. Using some libraries we can create audio files to be used as tables within csound, etc. However, before you can do anything more complicated, it is important to understand the csound opcodes. Also it possible to use Python to create a GUI. One of the benefits of csound is the large number of programs, including GUIs, written for csound.