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Tools needed to work efficiently with python
Python
The interpreter, needed to run any python program.
MacOS / Linux / BSD
Install the newest python available from your package manager. At the moment 3.6 or 3.7.
Windows / MacOS
Install the newest version from the python foundation.
PIP
A package manager for python libraries (and more). Maybe the best part of python.
It comes with most new installations of python, if not try the following:
MacOS / Linux / BSD
Install the newest python available from your package manager. Note that, if python 2 is installed pip will install packages for python2 and pip3 packages for python3.
Windows
It might come with the python installation.
Try
python3 -m pip install <package name>
If not, try installing it from wsl.
If all else fails, it probably includes running random binary scripts as administrator, good luck.
A good editor
Learning python is mostly useless if you cant write something in it, find a good editor.
Recommendations:
- PyCharm
- Spyder
- Thonny
- VSCode (or VSCodium)
- Atom
- Emacs
- Vim
- Notepad++