Section M.4 Installing Anaconda
Anaconda is a well-regulated development environment for Python under Windows, and I recommend it for users who do not already have Python installed. The essential
pretext script has github.com/PreTeXtBook/pretext/pull/252 to support both Python 2 and Python 3. Therefore we make no recommendation about which Python version to choose.
If you already have a working Python installation, skip this section.
You have some choice with your Anaconda installation. It actually supports the installation of several independent Pythons side-by-side (since both 2.7 and 3.x are in active use, this is more reasonable than it seems). If you do not need Python for anything else or are simply a minimalist, Miniconda is also an option. Miniconda installs no packages, but these can be installed via the
conda utility at the command line later.-
Download either Miniconda, Python 2.7, or Python 3.5 from the
www.continuum.io/downloads. -
Run the installer and accept all the default suggestions.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Python.
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