Installations
Installations
• Python Installation
• IDLE Introduction
• Pycharm Installation
• PIP Installation
• Jupyter Notebook Installation
Go to www.python.org/downloads
Click on Download Python 3.6.5
• A exe file will be downloaded.
• Click on customize installation.
Make sure everything is ticked.
Check you have all the ticks like below.
• Change the default path by selecting browse.
• Select a well known path which you can access.
• Do not select documents just because I selected.
Click on Install
• Python should install on your system.
• Then go to the path where you have installed python.
Select the python path, copy it and go to
system properties.
• Go to system properties.
• Then to advanced system
settings
•
Click on Environment variables.
In the window like below, go to PATH under
system variables.
Select the path and click on edit . Select new
and give your copied path.
Copy the Python\Scripts path also and paste
it in the system variables.
• Click on OK until
the end and close
the system
settings.
Go to the command prompt and open it.
Type in ‘python’ in the cmd.
• You will get the python version and you are in python shell now.
• The three greater than symbols indicate you are in python shell
• To come out of python shell enter ctrl+z and enter or type in ‘exit()’.
Enter ‘pip --version’ in the command line
• You will get the pip installed path and the version.
• Don’t worry if versions do not match. We can upgrade pip later.
In the windows search enter ‘IDLE’.
• If you do not see IDLE , it will be present in the link of
• ‘C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Python
3.6’
Open IDLE
• IDLE is just like Python shell. Remember the 3 greater than symbols.
• In IDLE we can execute Python statements.
• In IDLE, we can enter a python statement and the output is returned
on our screen at that instance.
• Means In IDLE we can only do line by line executions.
IDLE cont..
• In IDLE their will not be any syntax help . It does not give the auto
complete feature like Pycharm and other IDE’s do.
• In IDLE,we can execute a python file.
• Click on file and new file will open a file where you can write multiple
lines of code.
• To execute a file in IDLE we need
to save it.
Save the file on desktop.
• We can execute the file by pressing F5
• This will run the file and gives the output.
Executing python files through command
prompt.
• We can also execute the python files in command prompt.
• Go to command prompt.
• Change directory to the location of the file you wish to execute.
• ‘cd’ is the command for changing directory.
• Then enter ‘python space the file name with extension.
Installing Jupyter Notebook
• Upgrading pip to the latest . Type in the command ‘python3 –m pip
install -- upgrade pip
• Type the command ‘pip install Jupyter’ in the command prompt.
• Open the folder and then click on new which will be there in the right
side cornor of screen.
Jupyter Notebook
• Click on new and select python 3.
• This will create a new notebook in a new tab of your browser.
Jupyter Notebook
• In Jupyter Notebook, we work on in the cells . The boxes with ‘In[]’
are the cells. Each cell will be connected to all its previous cells.
• We can write code inside a cell and execute them with the shortcut of
ctrl+enter.
• Be carefull that if you want a cell to take data from a previous cell,
that previous cell needs to be executed at least once.
Jupyter Notebook
• The toolbar does the following.
• Run the cells code
• Save
• Interrupt the kernel
• Add a new cell
execution(program
• Cut a new cell execution
• Copy selected cells • Restart the kernel
• Paste selected cells • Restart the kernel and rerun
• Move selected cells up the whole notebook
• Move selected cells down
Jupyter Notebook
• Jupyter notebook is majorly used for data analysis purposes.
• We can also use the notebook for python practise.
• With jupyter notebook we can visulatize the outputs.
• Jupyter means JUlia ,PYThon , R language executor, which are used
majorly in data analysis.
• Like IDLE Juupyter notebook also does not give the syntax and
autocomplete features.
Pycharm-Installation
• Go to the page ‘https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/’
• Click on the community edition of python which is free.
• Click on the download button and this will install the pycharm exe file.
• It will ask for administrative privileges.just click yes.
Pycharm Installation.
• Install the pycharm with default settings.
• Click next until you get the page of install.
• Click on install
• This will install the pycharm.
Pycharm Installation
• Once Pycharm is installed seect create a new project.
• Please beware that pycharm needs python to be installed on your
computer as a prerequisite.
• Pycharm will pick the python path as the default interpretor.