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i_like_apis

4 hours? Yeesh. Here's how to do it in 5-10 minutes.

Use pyenv to install any python version and pyenv-virtualenv to manage virutal environments.

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv

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For me, pyenv on Mac is about 15 minute compile time with a bunch of environment variables required to make sure tkinter works properly.

The compile time depends largely on dependencies. If you have OpenSSL, zlib, and whatnot pre-installed (either via Homebrew or self-compiled and specified with environment variables), the compile time is close to 5 minutes. If you don’t, by default pyenv (actually python-build) compiles all those from scratch, and can easily spend north of 20 minutes (mostly for OpenSSL).

    brew install pyenv

Use miniconda. It's much better.

The licensing is not compatible with my companies legal team.

Anaconda is also great for beginners - GUI, lots of normal packages precompiled (also numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn). If you do the full install, it comes with lots of packages pre-loaded.

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