03-python-setup.md

Python Environment Setup

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• Terminal and Package Manager Setup (Mac, Windows)
• UNIX-based Command Line Basics
• Python Environment Setup

macOS

1. Install Python 3.7 via Homebrew:

   brew install python@3.7

2. Set Python 3.7 to be the default, and modify the PATH:

   mkdir ~/pythons
   ln -s /usr/local/opt/python@3.7/bin/python3 ~/pythons/python
   ln -s /usr/local/opt/python@3.7/bin/pip3 ~/pythons/pip
   echo >> ~/.zshrc
   echo 'export PATH="$HOME/pythons:/usr/local/opt/python@3.7/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

3. Quit Terminal (Command+Q) and re-open it. python should now be the latest Python 3.7.

Windows (via WSL)

Microsoft has kindly documented the full process at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/python/web-frameworks

Please complete the following sections of that documentation:

✅ Set up your development environment
✅ Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (NOTE: we covered this already)
✅ Set up Visual Studio Code
✅ Create a new project
✅ Install Python, pip, and venv
✅ Create a virtual environment
✅ Open a WSL - Remote window
✅ Install the Microsoft Python extension
✅ Run a simple Python program

At this stage you do not need to complete the following sections of that documentation:

🚫 Hello World tutorial for Flask
🚫 Hello World tutorial for Django