# Rasa / Building Chatbots with Python

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**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rasa-building-chatbots-with-python/1689 "2019-07-03T18:39:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/user_avatar/forum.codeselfstudy.com/josh/32/4_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/Josh)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rasa-building-chatbots-with-python/1689/1 "2019-07-03T18:39:09Z")

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I found this short book at Barnes & Noble at El Cerrito Plaza and read through it. It’s pretty interesting, but I ran into problems about 3/4 of the way through because it turns out that Rasa doesn’t work with Python 3.7, and trying to run it on 3.6 in a Docker container had other problems that I didn’t have time to solve.

> **[Building Chatbots with Python](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-4096-0)**
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> Build your own chatbot using Python and open source tools. This book begins with an introduction to chatbots where you will gain vital information on their architecture. You will then dive straight into natural language processing with the natural...

It might be better to go through the official docs than use that book.

> **[Welcome to the Rasa Docs | Rasa Documentation](https://rasa.com/docs/)**
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> Get started building conversational AI assistants with Rasa.

If anyone is interested in this topic, we could try building a “rubber duck debugging” bot at one of the upcoming Wednesday meetups. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/user_avatar/forum.codeselfstudy.com/josh/32/4_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/Josh)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/rasa-building-chatbots-with-python/1689/2 "2019-08-17T20:39:13Z")

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Here’s another chatbot library that was mentioned at a meetup:  
[https://www.rivescript.com/](https://www.rivescript.com/)

> RiveScript is a simple scripting language for chatbots with a friendly, easy to learn syntax.  
> Create your own chatbot in Go, Java, JavaScript, Perl or Python.