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Windows Installation Tutorial: Nasa Arset

This tutorial provides instructions for installing Python 3.4.3 on Windows and installing additional Python packages. It guides the user to download the Python 3.4.3 .msi file from python.org, run the installer, set the environment path, and test the installation. It then explains how to download Python packages in .whl format from an online repository, and use pip to install them from the command prompt.

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Windows Installation Tutorial: Nasa Arset

This tutorial provides instructions for installing Python 3.4.3 on Windows and installing additional Python packages. It guides the user to download the Python 3.4.3 .msi file from python.org, run the installer, set the environment path, and test the installation. It then explains how to download Python packages in .whl format from an online repository, and use pip to install them from the command prompt.

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Windows Installation

Tutorial
NASA ARSET
http://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/

For Python help, contact:


Justin Roberts-Pierel
[email protected]
Installing Python 3.4.3
https://www.python.org/downloads/
Go to: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Click the “Download


Python 3.4.3 Button”
Open the “.msi” downloaded file

Click the “Run” Button

Then follow the directions to install Python 3.4.3


Once Python 3.4.3 is installed…
Open the start menu:

**RIGHT** click on the


Click the “Advanced
“Computer” Button
System Settings” Button

Click “Properties”
Setting your environment path

Scroll to the very end of Click “Ok” to all open …and add the text:
this line of text… properties windows “;C:\Python34” to the end

Click on the variable “Path” so that it


Go to the “System Variables” is highlighted, and then click “Edit..”
window, and scroll down until
you find the “Path” variable
Click the “Environment
Variables” Button
Test Python 3.4.3 installation
Open the start menu:

Open Command Prompt

Type “python”… …and hit Enter


If your command prompt now says: “Python 3.4.3”, you’ve
completed the tutorial correctly! If not, you may have missed
something…

Search here for


“Command
prompt”
Installing Python 3 Packages
Windows Binary Files (.whl): Pip command
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
Downloading a “.whl” file Scroll down until you find the package you’re looking for

Once you find your desired package…

Click on the link corresponding to your version of python and your type of computer. For
example, this link is correct for someone with Python 3.4 installed (cp34), and if your
computer is 32-bit (win32)
Installing the “.whl” file

Navigate
Open
to your
Command
“Downloads”
Promptfolder
Install
ToThen
the
view“.whl”
all of“help(‘modules’)”
type netCDF4
your currently
packageinstalled
withhit
and this
python
command
This should install the package successfully. If enter
you get an
modules, type “python” and hit enter
error, it’s possible that you downloaded a file with the
incorrect version of python, or the incorrect choice of 32 vs
64 bit computer

A list of all of your currently installed modules will appear!

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