Installing Python

Installing Python#

There are several ways to install Python, we recommend to use uv.

  1. Download and install uv

  2. Open a command prompt and create a new environment in the directory where you will store your scripts and notebooks using uv venv.

  3. Activate the environment using .venv\Scripts\activate (Windows) or source .venv/bin/activate (Linux/Mac).

  4. Install common libraries (pip install pandas matplotlib jupyterlab)

  5. Start Jupyter lab (jupyter lab)

  6. You are now ready to start working with Python

Test your installation#

  1. Open command prompt

  2. Navigate to the directory where you created your environment using cd <path_to_your_directory>

  3. Activate the environment using .venv\Scripts\activate (Windows) or source .venv/bin/activate (Linux/Mac).

  4. Start python (python)

  5. Run the following lines of code:

import sys
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib as mpl
print(f"Python version: {sys.version}")
print("NumPy: " + np.__version__)
print("Pandas: " + pd.__version__)
print("Matplotlib: " + mpl.__version__)

Can you say yes to the following questions?

  • My Python version is 3.11 or greater

  • My NumPy version is 2.0 or greater

  • My pandas version is 2.0 or greater

  • My matplotlib version is 3.10 or greater

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