So I was looking around at different things to do on Python, like code for flashing text or a timer, but when I copied them into my window, there were constant syntax errors. Now, maybe you're not meant to copy them straight in, but one error I got was 'no module named wx'. I learned that I could get that module by installing wxPython. Problem is, I've tried all 4 options and none of them have worked for me. Which one do I download and how do I set it up using Windows?
Thanks
It's on PyPI. As of wxPython 4, Python 3 is supported.
Unfortunately, PyPI has a package called wx that is stuck at version 3.0.3; be sure to install the package named wxpython instead.
pip install wxpython
Please note that pip will automatically build wxWidgets for you, but it will not install wxWidgets system dependencies such as GTK and OpenGLu. If the above command exits with an error, look above for a message like this:
checking for <something>... not found
checking for <something>... no
configure: error: <prereq> libraries not available
Error running configure
ERROR: failed building widgets
This should give you information about at least one of the packages your system is missing.
The "official" list of prerequisites from the wxWidgets source is:
dpkg-dev
build-essential
libjpeg-dev
libtiff-dev
libsdl1.2-dev
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev # or 1.0 if available
libnotify-dev
freeglut3
freeglut3-dev
libsm-dev
libgtk-3-dev
libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev # or libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev if available
libxtst-dev
The actual package names provided by your package manager may not match these exactly, and to be honest, I don't really know the best way to query a package manager to determine what packages provide the libraries you need.
3 steps to install wx-widgets and pygame in python IDLE
Install python 3xxx in your system opting (Add 3xxx to your path).
open python CLI to see whether python is working or not.
then open command prompt (CMD).
type PIP to see whether pip is installed or not.
enter command : pip install wheel
enter command : pip install pygame
To install wxpython
enter command : pip install -U wxPython
Thats all !!
As per home page instruction:
Make sure you have at least version 6.0.8 of pip and 12.0.5 for setuptools.
Install requirements for Linux as outlined in the readme.rst at:
https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix/blob/master/README.rst
Install wxPython-Phoenix (Linux):
sudo pip install --upgrade --trusted-host wxpython.org --pre -f http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ wxPython_Phoenix
Install wxPython-Phoenix (Windows, use the appropriate script folder):
C:\python27\scripts\pip.exe install --upgrade --trusted-host wxpython.org --pre -f http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ wxPython_Phoenix
I installed wxPython as part of the PsychoPy experiment builder dependencies, and had considerable trouble getting it to install properly as well initially. But this was what worked for me at the end. I use Ubuntu 16.04, python 3.5, pip3 19.0.3
pip3 install -U -f https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-16.04 wxPython --user
If you use Conda then you may easily setup the environment with wx by one line:
$ conda create -n wxenv python=3 wxPython
Solving environment: done
## Package Plan ##
environment location: /home/user/.conda/envs/wxenv
added / updated specs:
- python=3
- wxpython
The following packages will be downloaded:
package | build
---------------------------|-----------------
[...]
Proceed ([y]/n)?
You need to ensure the versions of your wxPython download matches your installed python language library.
The current downloads wxPython downloads doesn't show any libraries built against python 3. I Believe the python 3 porting project is still ongoing.
If you are not sure of what you are doing I would stick with the 32bit version on windows as there are some Python libraries (ie IIRC, MySQLdb) which don't work with 64 bit python.
So you would then need to download python2.7 for windows x86 and "wxPython3.0-win32-py27 32-bit Python 2.7"
To install wxPython GUI library correctly go to the following page (https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/), which contains snapshots builds of wxPython library (Phoenix version) depending on your os and version of Python you want to work.
Then when you downloaded the proper package for your system and python version, simply install it by using pip. In my case I've choosen that one (wxPython_Phoenix-3.0.3.dev2811+ecc4797-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl):
pip install wxPython_Phoenix-3.0.3.dev2811+ecc4797-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
To check that it has been installed sucessfully on the site-packages folder for your current python environment write:
pip freeze
It's all!
Check the version of wxpython and the version of python you have in your machine.
For python 2.7 use wxPython3.0-win32-3.0.2.0-py27 package
The problem was solved in openSuse simply with
zypper in python-wxWidgets-3_0-devel
Trying pip install before, gave me a lot of trouble (missing traits, missing wx/setup.h, https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix/issues/1644, error: aggregate ‘wxGLAttributes _NullGLAttributes’ has incomplete type and cannot be defined, etc.).
wxpython failed to be installed with pipenv. Pipenv is not able to find wxpython binary so it tries to build wxpython but fails.
CXXFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/include" pipenv install wxpython
On my macOS M1 pipenv failed to install wxPython. After a lot of searching I found a forum post which really helped me fix the problem.
Source/Credits: https://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?t=47953&p=203709
Install current development version with:
pip install -U https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/archive/master.zip
(python < 3.9) Install current Beta version (2.0b1) with:
pip install psutil
pip install -U --pre robotframework-ride
Note that I tried to install wxPython with 'pip install -U wxPython' as per instruction
with no avail. Too many errors to list here. 🤨
I found a solution to the problem!!
I'm working on a 64b machine and Windows 11 operating system using VSCode.
Here is the solution using PowerShell:
Version specs:
pip 22.3.1
virtualenv 20.15.1
python 3.10.8
Create a new virtual environment in the directory where the program resides and
activate. There must be no modules installed.
virtualenv venv
venv/scripts/activate.bat
Install the following in sequence:
pip install pygame
(Not sure why pygame must be installed first, but this was
recommended and it works) 😟
pip install -U wxPython
SUCCESS!!! 🤠
These are the modules installed:
numpy 1.24.1
Pillow 9.4.0
pip 22.3.1
pygame 2.1.2
setuptools 65.4.0
six 1.16.0
wheel 0.37.1
wxPython 4.2.0
VSCode still reports wx as a missing module even when you activate the virtual
environment within. Running the code from the PS command prompt within the virtual
environment is the only working solution.
PS. I am sure there are some conflicts when trying to install wxPython within an
environment where all the other modules are installed.
Related
The Mac Book Air M1 chip doesn't seem to support pep517 according to the errors of installing third-party libraries with pip or brew. Even using these methods without pep517 downloading the library locally didn't work. How does one circumvent this?
Error from using pip install pandas:
Failed to build numpy
ERROR: Could not build wheels for numpy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly
I've tried this:
pip install <lib>
installing the library locally and trying to install with pip without pep517
brew install <lib>
openblas installation of lib
python env on the intel venv
I had the exact same problem, with a different library but with the same error code for PEP 517, I was using python 3.9 at the time, I checked the docs and found out that it's a problem with the python version for the library, downgraded to Python 3.6 and voila! it worked.
Basically try downgrading to Python 3.6 and check.
Installing python libraries through Anaconda seems to work. I simply downloaded the installer and could later use the libraries globally. If someone has a better in-depth explanation, feel free to comment.
I was having the same message when trying to install a different package. I solved by removing the CommandLineTools and installing it again. The steps were:
sudo rm -r /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
wait for command prompt...
xcode-select --install
This solved the issue for me.
I'm working on a machine learning assignment. By the when I was trying to install the following file
brew install qt qt5
brew install libxml2
make qt5py3
python labelImg.py
python labelImg.py [IMAGE_PATH] [PRE-DEFINED CLASS FILE]
at make qt5py3 the output from terminal is make: *** No rule to make target 'qt5py3'. Stop
I'm using OsX high sierra with default terminal
Does anyone know just what's happened?
To get the labelImg package (from the link you gave) working on OSX High Sierra, I needed to do the following.
First installed the missing lxml dependency using the solution in this answer
Also
brew install qt qt5
brew install libxml2
brew install pyqt5
After installing pyqt5, ensure that pyrcc5 can be run from the command line.
Download and unzip the labelImg .zip file from the link, and cd into the unzipped folder. Then
make qt5py3
When trying to run, I found it necessary to simplify the libs/usty.py file to remove the PyQt4 dependency. I just changed it to:
import sys
def ustr(x):
return x
At this point I can run the program with
python labelImg.py
Hope this is useful.
For me, I have occurred the same problem (MacOS version 10.13.4 and python 3.7) and solved using below steps.
Unzip the labelImg downloaded from here, cd labelImg-master
brew install qt qt5
brew install libxml2
brew install pyqt5
make qt5py3
python3 labelImg.py
you should download the project from github and enter the folder where file "makefile" is in,
then run make qt5py3
on Macbook
open terminal at folder "labelimg"
run:
make qt5py3
Came across this post (and maybe 30 others) while trying to install labelImg.
This gentleman's solution (from the beginning) finally allowed me to get started:
First, install Mini Conda (https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/install/macos.html), and open a new terminal window.
cd labelImg
conda create -n py2 python=2.7
source activate py2
conda install pyqt=4
conda install libxml2
conda install lxml
make qt4py2
python labelImg.py
https://gist.github.com/plopd/487f2caf2f983abc990987b97a8a734b
brew install qt qt5
downloaded and extracted zip file from
https://github.com/tzutalin/labelImg
make qt5py3
after running this command i got an error stating "No module found pyqt5";
pip install pyqt5
run
python labelImg.py
I want to write program in python3 (3.5), hence I installed python3 next to the pre-installed python2 (2.7) on Mac OS X El Captian.
Since my terminal runs python2.7 by default and Numpy is already installed for it, I put alias python=python3 and expected to be able to install Numpy for python3. when I type pip install numpy. This was the generated message:
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): numpy in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages
I also noticed that I have no pip3 even though I am using python3: python --version returned Python 3.5.2, but pip3 install numpy got me -bash: pip3: command not found.
So my questions are:
1) How to install Numpy for python3.x when Numpy is installed on python2.x?
2) How to get pip3?
3) Is it better to use virtual environments, such as Conda, instead of juggling between python2 and python3 on the system?
Thank you from a total n00b
------------------- Update -------------------
Reinstalling python3 also fixed another problem in my case.
When I ran brew doctor, one of the warning message I got was:
Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause brews that depend on those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run brew link on these: python –
This is a result of me running brew unlink python in order to fix
"Python quit unexpectedly"
when I launch Vim and also
"The ycmd server SHUT DOWN"
Both seem to relate to the YouCompleteMe autocomplete plugin which I downloaded for Python.
I got my idea of removing symlinks from here and here
However, Homebrew evidently did not like the absence of those 39 symlinks.
After uninstall (brew uninstall python3) and then re-install python3 (brew install python3) as Toby suggested, Homebrew gave me
You can install Python packages with
pip3 install <package>
Then when I pip3 install numpy and pip3 install scipy, both executed successfully.
To my surprise, symlinks created during Python installation used to cause aforementioned error messages for Python and YouCompleteMe, but now I open python files using Vim without crash from a fresh Python installation, which definitely created the symlinks.
------------------- Update2 ------------------
After re-installing Anaconda2, the same YouCompleteMe error came back. I suspect Anaconda messed up symlinks.
I would recommend using the Anaconda Python distribution.
The main reasons are as such:
You will have a Python distribution that comes with numpy and the rest of the Scientific Python stack.
The Anaconda Python will be installed under your home directory, with no need for sudo-ing to install other packages.
conda install [put_packagename_here] works alongside pip install [put_packagename_here]; conda install is much 'cleaner' (IMHO, differing opinions are welcome).
If you have a Python 3 environment as your default, then pip works out-of-the-box without needing to remember to do pip3.
conda environments are easier to manage than virtualenv environments, in my opinion. And yes, you can have Python 2 alongside Python 3.
I once messed up my system Python environment - the one that came with my Mac - and it broke iPhoto (back in the day). Since then, I became convinced of needing separate, atomic environments for different projects.
I've detailed more reasons in a personal blog post.
Other distributions, of course, are all good, provided they give you what you need :).
The simplest way on a Mac is with Homebrew:
http://brew.sh/
Install Homebrew, then run:
brew install python3 pip3
Edit --
Python3 includes pip3, but Homebrew occasionally has trouble linking to the correct versions, depending on what has been installed. Running the following command:
brew doctor
And if you see errors relating to python or unlinked kegs, try running:
brew uninstall python python3
And reinstalling after checking brew doctor.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233519/pip3-linked-to-python-framework-instead-of-homebrew-usr-local-bin
I have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 (and have to have both because for the class I'm running, students have the option of using either). One student has used Python 2.7 and numpy for their project, but when I attempt to install numpy, it installs it to 3.4. I need to install it to 2.7.
I'm using numpy 1.9 from this site, which I'm told is also 2.7-specific: http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/
However, nonetheless it still goes to the 3.4 folder. Copying it to Python 2.7 didn't work, obviously.
How do I do this?
I recommend installing with pip.
pip install numpy
If this doesn't work on windows then download the binary from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and convert it to a wheel before installing.
pip install wheel
wheel convert path/to/binary
pip install numpy_wheel
Pip is recommended because you can uninstall.
To check where you are installing to
pip -V
You may have an environmental variable path to the wrong pip.
Assuming that you are using, or at least you should use pip to install the library. You can specify the python version to be installed by changing the suffix, e.g. pip-2.7 install numpy.
pip install numpy
pip-2.7 install numpy
pip-3.4 install numpy
As an alternative, in case that you do not want to use pip is to download and install the library using setup with a similar technique.
python setup.py install
python2.7 setup.py install
python3.4 setup.py install
Your PATH isn't setup correctly.
C:> where pip
Should tell you which pip it is trying to use, and it is likely whichever one it found on your PATH first...
So, instead, you will want to run it as
C:> C:\mypython2install\pip.exe install numpy
Or, setup your path correctly. See here
Just one other note on issues like this. I had a similar problem with Python 2.7 libraries not being found, because I had miniconda installed for a Python virtual environment that was hijacking calls to python from other programs. After deleting the minconda directory in my home the problem went away and python libraries that were properly installed were found again.
Note-This answer is particularly for Windows PC which has both Python2 & Pyhton3 installed on it.
Both the versions of Python has their different directories somewhat like
"C:\Python27\" ----for python2
"C:\Python35\" ---- for python3
*(or it depends on what path you chose while installing Python**)*
pip GENERALLY exist under the directory "C:\Python**\Scripts"
there you can find exe files like:
pip.exe/pip2.exe/pip2.7.exe ----for python2
pip3.exe/pip3.5.exe ----for python3
to install packages on python2:
use
Python27\Scripts\pip2.exe install package_name
(where the 1st argument is the path of exe file, it might differ for your system)
to install packages on python3:
use
Python35\Scripts\pip3.exe install package_name
there is no need to uninstall any version of python to achieve the task.
I am a recent convert from Matlab/ Windows to Python/ Ubuntu.
I have installed EPD python which is a python distribution that includes most scientific packages, I am super happy so far. Next, I needed to install NLTK to do some text analytics and followed the instructions on the nltk webpage. Problem is that all the packages (pyyaml,nltk etc) are getting installed into
/usr/local/lib/python2.7
However, I already changed my .bashrc (as specifed in post-installations instructions of EPD) and added the following line at the end of it.
export PATH=/home/myname/epd/bin:$PATH
and sys.path from my python shell returns
['',
'/home/myname/epd/bin',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.10.0-py2.7- linux-i686.egg',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python27.zip',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL',
'/home/myname/epd/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/extensions']
Any help regarding how to make new python packages install into the right path is much appreciated. If you have time, please do elaborate on why this is happening and what I am doing wrong. Thanks a ton for you time!
You have two good choices for setting up your python environment in ubuntu:
Use the ubuntu packages, like Thorsten suggests.
Use the pip package manager in a virtualenv. This way you can set up multiple environments and hop from one to the other. A virtualenv can be configured to also include the system-wide ubuntu packages.
nltk exists as a pip package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nltk/2.0.4
pip has some trouble on ubuntu when linking to c libraries, since ubuntu places them in a place where the setup scripts do not look. Make sure to also install the -dev version of the dependency packages, since they contain the header files that pip needs, and copy or link the libraries from /usr/lib/your linux architecture/lib/ to /usr/local/lib so that pip may find them.
I recently installed NLTK and PyYAML because I'm working through "Natural Language Processing with Python". I was pleasantly surprised to find that both are available through the EPD package manager enpkg (although NLTK isn't listed on the Enthought site as being available).
$ enpkg -s pyyaml
Name Versions Note
------------------------------------------------------------
PyYAML 3.9-2
3.10-1
$ enpkg -s nltk
Name Versions Note
------------------------------------------------------------
nltk 2.0.1rc1-1
2.0.1rc1-2
2.0.1-1
You can install both using:
$ enpkg pyyaml
$ enpkg nltk
and you're good to go!
For scientific python modules in NLTK, normally scipy would have suffice basic scientific functions and numpy would have covered the statistics. The NLTK installation site strongly recommends pip too. http://nltk.org/install.html
Open Finder>Applications>Utilities>Terminal and type python -V to find out what version of Python is installed
Install Setuptools: Download the corresponding version of Setuptools from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools (scroll to the bottom, and pick the filename that contains the right version number and which has the extension .egg). Install it by typing sudo sh Downloads/setuptools-...egg, giving the location of the downloaded file.
Install Pip: run sudo easy_install pip
Install Numpy (optional): run sudo pip install -U numpy
Install PyYAML and NLTK: run sudo pip install -U pyyaml nltk
Test installation: run python then type import nltk