Log Book Entry No.12

Created: 11 Sep 2013 11:49:52

Last Revised: 11 Sep 2013 15:44:31

PedroPaiva

Building Python for Windows

Latest Python 2.7.5 MSI downloaded from here and installed at ==c:\Python27==
Folder added to System PATH

1. Go to Control Panel -> System
2. On the left, click on Advanced system settings
3. Environment Variables button
4. System variables -> Select Path -> Edit

   • C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts;

   1. If the Path contain other values, those should be kept constant and separated with a semicolon ==;==

Packages can be downloaded from here.

Installed Packages:

• Scipy-stack (Must be installed first, includes most needed packages as pylab (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, ipython, ... ) and others
• Updated ipython to 1.1.0 (the stack includes version 1.0.0)
• pyfits 3.1.2
• pyminuit 1.2.1
• pywin32 218.4

Created a nice desktop link with:

C:\Python27\python.exe -c "import sys; from IPython.frontend.terminal.ipapp import launch_new_instance; sys.exit(launch_new_instance())" --pylab

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