I’ve had a few people ask me lately how I setup my local python environment.

I am using iterm2 (v3.0.0) on OSX. That means I am using homebrew and I installed wget and curl via brew.

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/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

brew install wget
brew install curl

Install the python package manager pip

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wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

Install the virtualenvwrapper package. It lets you manage python virtual environments easier than just using virtualenv

sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

Create working directory and project directory

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export WORKSPACE=~/dev
export PROJ=$WORKSPACE/testproj1
mkdir-p $PROJ

cd $PROJ

Make virtual environment (aka isolated dependencies)

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->$ mkvirtualenv testproj1

->$ pip install requests
Collecting requests
  Using cached requests-2.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  Installing collected packages: requests
  Successfully installed requests-2.10.0

Create file to test with:

vim test.py

inside test.py:

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import requests

r = requests.get('https://jasonmeridth.com')
print r.status_code

get out of the file by pressing Esc on your keyboard then typing :wq

continuing:

python test.py

output should be:

200

Voila!!