Adam Claridge-Chang June 2015
Google "anaconda python" and click through to the relevant download page.
Use installer to install. When complete, there will be a shortcut on your desktop that looks like below
from IPython.display import Image
Image(filename='/Users/adamcc77/Desktop/anaconda_symbol.jpg')
Click on that icon, the Launcher will appear. Click on the IPython Notebook.
On the package's homepage, see if they offer pip installation - most will.
Most packages are hosted on the PYthon Package Index (PYPI), so are installable with pip.
For example to install RPy2, a package for running R code in IPython, you can type this in Terminal
$ pip install rpy2
You may want to organize your custom scripts into a folder that is not mixed in with the Anaconda modules
In Terminal on the command line type (without the $ sign, which is the prompt)
$ cd
$ ls -a
This means "change directory to my home folder, list all files including hidden files".
You should see a file called .bash_profile
listed there
Into the command line type
$ open .bash_profile
This should open in TextEdit. Add two lines to the text file:
# Added by My Name on My Date
export PYTHONPATH="/Users/myusername/path/to/folder:$PYTHONPATH"
Open a python session:
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
The new folder should now be listed in your path
As per this page https://stackoverflow.com/questions/739993/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-locally-installed-python-modules
import pip
installed_packages = pip.get_installed_distributions()
installed_packages_list = sorted(["%s==%s" % (i.key, i.version)
for i in installed_packages])
print(installed_packages_list)
['abstract-rendering==0.5.1', 'alabaster==0.7.3', 'argcomplete==0.8.4', 'astropy==1.0.2', 'atom==0.3.9', 'babel==1.3', 'backports.ssl-match-hostname==3.4.0.2', 'bcolz==0.8.1', 'beautifulsoup4==4.3.2', 'binstar==0.10.3', 'bitarray==0.8.1', 'blaze==0.8.0', 'blz==0.6.2', 'bokeh==0.8.2', 'boto==2.38.0', 'casuarius==1.1', 'cdecimal==2.3', 'cffi==0.9.2', 'chaco==4.5.0', 'clyent==0.3.4', 'colorama==0.3.3', 'conda-build==1.12.1', 'conda-env==2.1.4', 'conda==3.12.0', 'configobj==5.0.6', 'cryptography==0.8.2', 'cython==0.22', 'cytoolz==0.7.2', 'datashape==0.4.5', 'decorator==3.4.0', 'docutils==0.12', 'enable==4.4.1', 'enaml==0.9.8', 'enum34==1.0.4', 'fastcache==1.0.2', 'flask==0.10.1', 'funcsigs==0.4', 'future==0.14.3', 'futures==3.0.2', 'gevent-websocket==0.9.3', 'gevent==1.0.1', 'greenlet==0.4.6', 'grin==1.2.1', 'h5py==2.5.0', 'ipython==3.1.0', 'itsdangerous==0.24', 'jdcal==1.0', 'jedi==0.8.1', 'jinja2==2.7.3', 'jsonschema==2.4.0', 'kiwisolver==0.1.3', 'llvmlite==0.4.0', 'llvmpy==0.12.7', 'lxml==3.4.4', 'markupsafe==0.23', 'matlabengineforpython==R2014b', 'matplotlib==1.4.3', 'mistune==0.5.1', 'mock==1.0.1', 'multipledispatch==0.4.7', 'networkx==1.9.1', 'nltk==3.0.2', 'nose==1.3.6', 'nptdms==0.6.2', 'numba==0.18.2', 'numexpr==2.3.1', 'numpy==1.9.2', 'oct2py==2.4.0', 'odo==0.3.2', 'openpyxl==2.0.2', 'pandas==0.16.1', 'patsy==0.3.0', 'pep8==1.6.2', 'pil==1.1.7', 'pillow==2.7.0', 'pip==7.0.3', 'ply==3.4', 'psutil==2.2.1', 'ptyprocess==0.4', 'py==1.4.26', 'pyasn1==0.1.7', 'pyaudio==0.2.7', 'pybeeswarm==1.0.0', 'pycosat==0.6.1', 'pycparser==2.12', 'pycrypto==2.6.1', 'pycurl==7.19.5.1', 'pyface==4.4.0', 'pyflakes==0.8.1', 'pygments==2.0.2', 'pymongo==2.8', 'pyopenssl==0.15.1', 'pyparsing==2.0.3', 'pytest==2.7.0', 'python-dateutil==2.4.1', 'pytz==2015.4', 'pyyaml==3.11', 'pyzmq==14.6.0', 'redis==2.10.3', 'requests==2.7.0', 'rope==0.9.4', 'rpy2==2.5.6', 'runipy==0.1.3', 'scikit-image==0.11.3', 'scikit-learn==0.16.1', 'scikits.bootstrap==0.3.2', 'scipy==0.15.1', 'seaborn==0.5.1', 'setuptools==15.2', 'singledispatch==3.4.0.3', 'six==1.9.0', 'snowballstemmer==1.2.0', 'sockjs-tornado==1.0.1', 'sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.7', 'sphinx==1.2.3', 'spyder==2.3.4', 'sqlalchemy==1.0.4', 'statsmodels==0.6.1', 'svgutils==0.1.0', 'sympy==0.7.6', 'tables==3.1.1', 'terminado==0.5', 'toolz==0.7.2', 'tornado==4.1', 'traits==4.4.0', 'traitsui==4.4.0', 'ujson==1.33', 'unicodecsv==0.9.4', 'werkzeug==0.10.4', 'xlrd==0.9.3', 'xlsxwriter==0.7.2', 'xlwt==1.0.0']
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Make your notebook
Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVCH61fKyY
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