Computing

Python OS X Install

This is being written by Jared Kibele in early January, 2018. We are working on getting Rachel Carlson’s laptop set up for scientific and geospatial Python work. Hopefully this will serve as a guide for the next time we need to put together a similar setup.

Python

In general, we’re following the recommendations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python, with the exception that we’re focusing on Python 2.7 rather than 3. We’re going to need to get with the Python 3 program soon, but not quite yet.

Scientific Python Stack

Numpy, Matplotlib, Scipy, and Pandas are pretty essential, and Spyder is my favorite IDE. There are some good instructions for installing that stuff here . We followed most of those instructions with the following exceptions:

'’brew install –with-python pyqt5’’ seemed to work fine, but ‘‘pip2 install -U spyder’’ failed saying it couldn’t find a pyqt installation. I’m trying to figure out what the problem is at the moment. I’ll update this entry when I get it figured out. …or I may lose my mind while trying.

Update

April 2018. Jeanette had some trouble with Spyder installation following these instructions. She said this link sorted her out: http://engineeringterminal.com/computer-science/tutorials/scipy-setup-macos.html