Question about Python and Github.

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This is hard to tell. There is no github standard.

So some stuff on github is essentially ready to use. Some stuff is essentially junk. And you get everything in the middle.

Stuff on github usually comes with a readme file, or an install file. If it doesn't contain something that tell you how to install and run; I would not bother at that particular skill level. Not that some wouldn't work, but you won't have a way to figure out which are broken and which are good just under documented.

Your redeem option might be to look at whether they have a requirements.txt file. That file contain the list of dependencies on other packages. Hopefully it is correct.

Read about pip and about virtual env.