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Pulkit Kumar
2,052 Pointsinstall python in mac osx
how can make python scripts and run them on mac OS X? what editor and compare should i use
Pulkit Kumar
2,052 PointsThanks a lot Mario, its working perfectly fine :D
Mario Blokland
19,750 PointsYou are welcome :-).
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Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherWe use exclusively Python 3 on Treehouse, specifically Python 3.4.
Mario Blokland
19,750 PointsKenneth Love your videos are really excellent, just watched a few, great teacher. Will you make some videos on Django (Beginner to Advanced or something) in the future too? With real world apps and explaining the magic behind this? (please no poll app :-) )
I have went through the official Django Tutorial but there is really much magic going on so now I know what to do but don't really know why and what the magic does behind the scenes.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherWe will definitely be doing some Django stuff, but we have some more ground to cover before we get there. And, no, I won't be doing a polls app :) The official docs have that pretty well covered.
Mario Blokland
19,750 PointsKenneth Love that sounds awesome :-). I am looking forward to that!
Mario Blokland
19,750 PointsMario Blokland
19,750 PointsHi Pulkit,
there are two python versions out there which are 2.x and 3.x. Typically MAC OS X has already an python interpreter pre-installed which should be the 2.x interpreter. If you open the terminal and type in "python" (without quotation marks) then you will see which exact version you have installed. (I don't know which version Kenneth uses in his videos because I didn't go through them yet).
But in case you have to use the 3.x version then just go to https://www.python.org/downloads/ and download the 3.x version. Then, you can choose in the terminal with which interpreter you want to interpret your python files just by typing "python MyModule.py" for python 2.x or "python3 MyModule.py" for python 3.x
You can use whatever editor you want to. Most people use the Sublime Text Editor.
Hope I could help.
--Mario