System SetupΒΆ
- You will need a Python interpreter
(Python 2.7 for the current version of these tutorials)
- Academic users may wish to use the Enthought Python Distribution but we do not use any special features of this distribution in this lesson
- 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 directorymkdir 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
- save and extract the
- 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
- On Windows
test that you can run the exercise scripts (in the
exercises
folder)