It’s not often that I go on a trip and think “Nothing could have made this better.” And yet, in September of 2017, when I returned from my trip to Nikiti for a summer school in Advanced Scientific Programming in Python, I was left thinking exactly that. Continue reading “Scientific Python Programming in Greece”
Dual Installations of Python 2.X and Python 3.X with Anaconda/Spyder
Python 3 has been around for quite awhile, but I have delayed the upgrade from my 2.7 version partially due to a small fear of my code breaking but mostly out of laziness. Well, I have procrastinated long enough, and today it was finally time to upgrade. However, I wanted to still be able to run/test code in Python 2.7 in case some modules were no longer available in 3.5. The obvious solution from 5 minutes of Googling was virtual environments, but I had trouble finding an “Idiot’s Guide” to working with virtual environments in Windows with Spyder. Once I figured out how to do it, I felt pretty stupid, because it is actually incredibly basic. Continue reading “Dual Installations of Python 2.X and Python 3.X with Anaconda/Spyder”