PythonEnvironment.md

For Mac and Linux OS

Installing pyenv to manage multiple versions of python in user space.

• First we will have to install build dependancies For Linux

  sudo apt-get install -y make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
  libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev \
  libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev python-openssl
  

  For Max

  brew install openssl readline sqlite3 xz zlib
  

• Install pyenv from source

  curl https://pyenv.run | bash
  

• Follow the instructions after installation and restart the terminal

Installing python using pyenv

• List all the available versions of python (Use grep to shorten the list to the ones yuo want to list)

  pyenv install --list 
  

• Install the version you want

  pyenv install -v version-name
  

• List python versions

  pyenv versions
  

• Set python version

  pyenv global version
  

• Location of python

  pyenv which python
  

References

• Intro to pyenv