Python Environment

In short, you're going to want to be able to run python on your command line and have the Python interpreter come up. here are many ways to do this, and different ways on each platform, but some suggested options are below:

• On Windows:

  • Download the latest installer from the python.org download page. If in doubt, you probably want what's labelled as the "Windows installer (64-bit)". Yes, they really should make that more obvious.

• On Mac:

  • with Homebrew: run brew install python3
  • otherwise: Download the latest install from the python.org download page.

• On Linux:

  • Debian & Ubuntu: apt install python3
  • RedHat: rpm install python3