Introduction to Python Basics Sessions

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Anaconda/Miniconda

Anaconda is python distribution which bundles all the required datascience tools.

Download Anaconda from Anaconda Website. Use Python 3 version.

Miniconda is smaller version of Anaconda, which contains only required packages to run anaconda.

Download miniconda from Miniconda website. Use Python 3 version.

Installation

Linux

> chmod +x Anaconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
> ./Anaconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
> nano ~/.bashrc

Mac

> chmod +x Anaconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
> ./Anaconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
> nano ~/.bash_profile

Add line below to .bashrc or .bash_profile or .zshrc file

    export PATH=$PATH:~/anaconda3/bin

Windows

• Install exe file
• update environment variable with installed Anaconda path. See Instructions

Github and Git

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• Download github desktop from https://desktop.github.com/

Windows

• Download git for windows from https://git-scm.com/download/win

Linux

• Install git from your package manager.

  Ubuntu

    $ sudo apt-get install git
  

  Archlinux

    $ sudo pacman -S git
  

  Solus

    $ sudo eopkg it git
  

Usage

Requires Miniconda/Anaconda to be installed

$ git clone https://github.com/lfapython/pybasics.git
$ cd pybasics
$ conda env create
$ source activate pybasics
$ jupyter-notebook