bash_profile) file: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/python:$PATH To add Homebrew installed executables and Python scripts to your path you’ll want to add the following line to your. Homebrew installs things to /usr/local/ so you don’t need sudo permissions.
To install it simply launch a terminal and enter ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL /mxcl/homebrew/go)" Homebrew is an excellent package manager for Mac OS X that can install a large number of packages. (You’ll need a free Apple ID.) (See also. If you prefer another editor it’s possible to get only the libraries and compilers that you need with the Command Line Tools for Xcode. However, I use hardly any of its features and unless you’re an iOS or Mac developer you probably won’t either. I use the Xcode editor because I like its syntax highlighting, code completion, and organizer. On Lion you can install Xcode from the App Store, on Snow Leopard you’ll have to get an older Xcode from. You will need Apple’s developer tools in order to compile Python and the other installs.
Update: If doing all the stuff below doesn’t seem like your cup of tea, it’s also possible to install Python, NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib using double-click binary installers (resulting in a much less flexible installation), see this post to learn how. On Snow Leopard you won’t install Xcode via the App Store, you’ll have to download it from Apple.Īfter I’d helped my friend I found this blog post describing a procedure pretty much the same as below. These instructions are for Lion but should work on Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion without much trouble.
See the “Install Python” page for the most recent instructions.Ī bit ago a friend and I both had fresh Mac OS X Lion installs so I helped him set up his computers with a scientific Python setup and did mine at the same time. Update: These instructions are over a year old, though they may still work for you.
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