Use Codex CLI to Enhance Your Python Projects: Installing & Setting Up
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This is a preview of the video course, "Use Codex CLI to Enhance Your Python Projects". After watching this video course, you’ll be able to use Codex CLI to add features to a Python project directly from your terminal. Codex CLI is an AI-powered coding assistant that runs inside your terminal. It understands your project structure, reads your files, and proposes multi-file changes using natural language instructions.
Instead of copying code from a browser or relying on an IDE plugin, you’ll use Codex CLI to implement a real feature in a multi-file Python project directly from your terminal.
This is a portion of the complete course, which you can find here: https://realpython.com/courses/use-codex-cli-enhance-your-python-projects/
The rest of the course covers:
- Setting Up Codex
- First Steps With Codex
- Using Plan Mode in Codex CLI
- Implementing the Plan
- Refining Project Features
- Use Codex CLI to Enhance Your Python Projects (Quiz)
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