{A gentle introduction to Python\TeX} {Andrew Mertz and William Slough} {The Python\TeX\ package allows authors to combine computational and typesetting tasks by embedding Python code in \TeX\ documents. This package allows access to many powerful Python modules, providing support for such things as symbolic mathematics, plotting, arbitrary precision numerical calculations, and networking. Python's intuitive syntax, popularity, and extensibility together with \TeX's formatting strengths make them a logical system for programming documents. By examining a variety of examples, we will provide an overview of the capabilities and possibilities of Python\TeX. }