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Setting Up

Let's try to setup your environment.

Getting Started​

Get started by installing Conda. If you feel like running experimental software, mamba is a faster replacement but not as popular as conda.

Create an environment​

Create a new working environment named warp.

conda create -n warp python=3
conda activate warp

You can type the above commands into Command Prompt, Powershell, or any other integrated terminal of your code editor. If you are still looking for one, try warp and starship :-)

Verify your environment​

Verify that your environment has been setup.

conda list

You should get something similar to this. These are the initial list of packages that we'll use for our sessions.

# packages in environment at /Users/uname/mambaforge/envs/warp:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
bzip2                     1.0.8                h620ffc9_4
ca-certificates           2022.4.26            hca03da5_0
certifi                   2022.5.18.1     py310hca03da5_0
libcxx                    12.0.0               hf6beb65_1
libffi                    3.4.2                hc377ac9_4
ncurses                   6.3                  h1a28f6b_2
openssl                   1.1.1o               h1a28f6b_0
pip                       21.2.4          py310hca03da5_0
python                    3.10.4               hbdb9e5c_0
readline                  8.1.2                h1a28f6b_1
setuptools                61.2.0          py310hca03da5_0
sqlite                    3.38.3               h1058600_0
tk                        8.6.12               hb8d0fd4_0
tzdata                    2022a                hda174b7_0
wheel                     0.37.1             pyhd3eb1b0_0
xz                        5.2.5                h1a28f6b_1
zlib                      1.2.12               h5a0b063_2

Switching Projects​

When you work on different projects, they may require different packages or dependencies. Conda (or mamba) can help you manage multiple package environments associated with each project.

Setting up a different project elderwarp with Python 3.9 and switch to the new environment.

conda create -n elderwarp python=3.9
conda activate elderwarp

After doing some experiment, you can then switch back to your previous environment.

conda deactivate

If necessary, you can also remove the environment you may no longer need.

conda env remove -n elderwarp

Check that you have removed the environment.

conda env list

Setting up your IDE​

We recommend setting up either of the following IDEs for your projects: