Learning and writing Python codes under Mac OS?

[hajime]

Hi, has anybody tried this before? Is it as simple as doing it under Linux or Windows 10?

 

[Velin]

Easier. Launch terminal > prompt > python.

 

[revmacian]

Easier. Launch terminal > prompt > python.

Wouldn't that launch the python 2.7.x version that ships with macOS? That version is old and will likely be replaced with python 3.8.x in macOS versions after Catalina.

 

[Analog Kid]

If you’re learning Python, look at Anaconda and the Jupyter platform.

Platform | Anaconda

Anaconda is the birthplace of Python data science. We are a movement of data scientists, data-driven enterprises, and open source communities.

www.anaconda.com

Project Jupyter

The Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. The notebook combines live code, equations, narrative text, visualizations, interactive dashboards and other media.

jupyter.org

Im pretty sure Jupyter comes as part of the default conda distribution, but it’s easy enough to install separately if you need to.

 

[revmacian]

If you’re learning Python, look at Anaconda and the Jupyter platform.

Platform | Anaconda

Anaconda is the birthplace of Python data science. We are a movement of data scientists, data-driven enterprises, and open source communities.

www.anaconda.com

Project Jupyter

The Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. The notebook combines live code, equations, narrative text, visualizations, interactive dashboards and other media.

jupyter.org

Im pretty sure Jupyter comes as part of the default conda distribution, but it’s easy enough to install separately if you need to.

And, if you're just learning Python, I recommend going with the Python 3.8.x distribution because it will be easier to start with Python 3 than learning the syntax changes from Python 2 to Python 3. If I'm reading the signs correctly, macOS versions after Catalina will ship with Python 3.8.

 

[Analog Kid]

And, if you're just learning Python, I recommend going with the Python 3.8.x distribution because it will be easier to start with Python 3 than learning the syntax changes from Python 2 to Python 3. If I'm reading the signs correctly, macOS versions after Catalina will ship with Python 3.8.

Anaconda currently offers 3.7, which I think is probably fine. I’m sure you can update it to 3.8 manually, but the differences are probably minimal to a new learner...

 

[Red Menace]

If I'm reading the signs correctly, macOS versions after Catalina will ship with Python 3.8.

From the Catalina release notes, future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, so unless they happen to be using one for some reason, you will need to install it yourself.

 

[revmacian]

From the Catalina release notes, future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, so unless they happen to be using one for some reason, you will need to install it yourself.

Ah, that is good to know, thank you very much. So, we may need to install Python 3 manually in macOS 10.16. From what I've seen with the Python website over the years.. this shouldn't be difficult at all.

 

[KALLT]

Python 3 is bundled with Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install) or bundled with Xcode. You can also install any scripting languages with package managers like Homebrew and MacPorts.

 

[revmacian]

Python 3 is bundled with Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install) or bundled with Xcode. You can also install any scripting languages with package managers like Homebrew and MacPorts.

That makes sense. On Catalina you can run the command python3 and it will launch xcode-select. I wonder why Apple included both of these executables instead of symlinking one to the other. There is no man page for python3, so I'm kinda confused.