{"id":143,"date":"2016-12-27T17:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/?p=143"},"modified":"2016-12-27T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:12:18","slug":"python-and-the-anaconda-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/2016\/12\/27\/python-and-the-anaconda-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"python and the Anaconda repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to use the Anaconda Python distribution, it makes life a little easier by including all the data science packages I like to use (NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, pandas, Jupyter Notebook and scikit-learn). While I predominantly use Linux Anaconda apparently makes life a lot easier in a Windows or Mac environment.<\/p>\n<p>The package manage for Anaconda is conda (command line) and there is now a GUI interface available (called anaconda-navigator). To run the navigator type anaconda-navigator at the command line.<\/p>\n<p>to check if conda is installed (or which version):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>conda &#8211;version<\/p>\n<p>conda info<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>to update Anaconda to the latest version:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>conda update conda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The installation of Anaconda adds a new path to the beginning of the environment variable PATH ensuring that anaconda bin will be utilised before the standard python bin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to use the Anaconda Python distribution, it makes life a little easier by including all the data science packages I like to use (NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, pandas, Jupyter Notebook and scikit-learn). While I predominantly use Linux Anaconda apparently makes life a lot easier in a Windows or Mac environment. The package manage for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cardiomaths.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}