[Distutils] Module Installation Issues

[Wes Turner]

On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Mills, Ryan <Ryan.Mills at texascapitalbank.com>
wrote:

> I just recently downloaded Python 3.5 and cannot seem to install any
> packages like Numpy, etc.  I have tried all the instructions on the website
> and keep getting errors:
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> For example, when I type “python –m pip install Numpy” it returns  a
> Syntax Error. I am completely new to Python so I must be missing something
> here – I haven’t altered any files since installing it the other day. Do I
> use the Python IDLE Shell? Are there other packages I need to install
> first?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

Shell commands can/could/should be clearly indicated with a '$' prefix:

    $ python -m pip install numpy

Python expressions are sometimes prefixed with '>>>':

    >>> import numpy as np

TBH, as a beginner, it's probably way easier to start with Anaconda (conda
packages) and pip (python packages) (because there are a number of
libraries required to build numpy and then whatever else):

- https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/
- $ conda install pip; python -m pip install
- $ which python; python -m site

The software carpentry lessons are a good place to start from:

- http://software-carpentry.org/lessons/
  - http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/

Also great resources:

- http://www.scipy-lectures.org
- https://github.com/jrjohansson/scientific-python-lectures
(IPython/Jupyter nb)

- https://westurner.org/wiki/awesome-python-testing#python
  - https://westurner.org/tools/#python
  - http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/
  - http://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html

  - https://westurner.org/tools/#numpy

- IDLE is pretty cool.
- IPython is great.

- Jupyter Notebook is a reverse shell.
- Spyder ($ conda install spyder)
- [commercial IDE preference]


- If you write tests from the start, there's less run/check/run/check
manual testing and more test coverage.



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