System SetupΒΆ

  • You will need a Python interpreter (Python 2.7 for the current version of these tutorials)
  • You will need a copy of this project distribution (the exercises and sample data files are included in the archive)
    • save and extract the download.tar.gz file into a new directory
      • mkdir python-lesson
      • wget http://142.1.253.67/download.tar.gz
      • tar -zxvf download.tar.gz
    • the workshop directory contains a local copy of this site
    • the exercises directory contains the exercise and source-code samples you will need to complete the session
  • You will need a “command shell”
    • On Windows
      • You may use cmd or powershell (Start | Run | cmd)
      • Or you may wish to install the Cygwin environment to obtain a copy of bash (and potentially Python)
      • You will likely want to add the directory c:Python27 to your PATH environment variable.
    • On Linux or Mac OSX you should already have bash available, and likely have a GUI terminal application available
  • test that you can run the exercise scripts (in the exercises folder)