Check your installation

Check your installation#

Note

If you encounter errors, please open an issue in the py-edu-fr issue tracker to explain what you did and describe the errors (please copy and paste the error log). This is also a good exercise to learn how to use an issue tracker and interact to find a solution to your problem.

Check command-line tools#

To verify your installation for this training, copy and paste the following commands into a new terminal:

python3 --version
uv --version
pixi --version
jupyter-lab --version
ipython --version
hg --version

A few programs were presented as useful but optional for this training:

git --version
meld --version
conda --version

Check graphical applications#

  • You should be able to open Visual Studio Code using one of the commands code or codium.

  • You should be able to open Spyder.

Check activation of a virtual environment#

Once UV is installed, these commands should work in a new terminal:

uv venv -p 3.13 venv-tmp
venv-tmp\Scripts\activate

The activation didn’t work well?

On Windows, this might result in an error related to the Restrictive Execution Policy. A solution is to run the following command in a PowerShell session started as administrator (run only this command; the activation should then be performed as a normal user in a new terminal):

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

If you cannot do this yourself, please ask your administrator for assistance.

uv venv -p 3.13 venv-tmp
. ./venv-tmp/bin/activate

Next#

You should be ready to start the training! More importantly, you should now have a good setup for developing with Python.

If you are brave enough and still have a bit of time and energy for that, you can finalise the preparation by working on the first exercises of the page Get and use the training source, which consist in installing and using the virtual environment of the training.

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