A python testing playground organized by topic in the python tutorial: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
Workable code is written on each topic to demonstrate use of python in the topic area.
python has to be downloaded and installed. Atom was used as text editor.
Additional modules were added to python. Enter the following into cmd to install them:
pip install pyyaml
pip install cerberus
<!-- Anaconda versions -->
conda install -y -c anaconda pyyaml
conda install -y -c conda-forge cerberus
Alternatively python has the ability to install up to 100 dependencies from a text file, normally named requirements.txt. To install dependencies from file, enter the following into cmd:
pip install -r requirements.txt
The contents of requirements.txt are as follows:
module1_name==module1_version
module2_name==module2_version
Version is optional if you are fine with the default version.
- Hydrogen
- linter-flake8
- python-autopep8
- atom-beautify
- busy-signal
- file-icons
- intentions
- linter
- minimap
- open_in_cmd
- project-manager
- script
Some of the packages require using pip to install certain modules, so open up cmd and enter:
pip install flake8
pip install autopep8
<!-- Anaconda versions -->
conda install -y -c anaconda flake8
conda install -y -c conda-forge autopep8
The path flake8 is installed to may need to be added to windows environmental variables to use linter-flake8. The path to the anaconda installation is probably C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts.
- python's locale.getpreferredencoding() returns cp1252 in windows. This may cause problems with information from web apis. To rectify this problem insert the following code on top of python files with encoding issues:
import sys
import io
sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.detach(), encoding='utf-8')
sys.stderr = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stderr.detach(), encoding='utf-8')
Downloaded files might also be in this format. To rectify this problem set encoding='cp1252' when reading the file.
- To access custom modules in the parent directory of the script run, use the following code inn the script:
import os
import sys
current_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
parent_dir = os.path.dirname(current_dir)
sys.path.append(parent_dir)