Python Setup

December 15, 2013
Development
Deployment

Python development environment and packages on Ubuntu server:

Install:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential

Virtualenvwrapper:

Virtualenvwrapper increases your productivity why dealing with virtualenv. If you don’t know virtalenv, then first have a look at it. It is a great tool for managing python packages.

Installation:

$ sudo pip install virtualenv

Follow this guide. Or follow this quick reference

Install

sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
mkdir -p $WORKON_HOME

vi ~/.profile

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Zshell users: vi .zshrc

plugins=(git python pip cp django virtualenvwrapper)

Dealing with virtalenv

Create new virtalenv

$ mkvirtualenv project_name

# With pypy

$ mkvirtualenv -p pypy project_name

Set project folder

$ setvirtualenvproject

Active

$ workon environment_name

Remove

$ rmvirtualenv environment_name

Upgrade all packages

$ pip install `pip freeze -l | cut --fields=1 -d = -` --upgrade

lxml

pip install lxml

first install those apps and then reboot your system

sudo apt-get install libxml2 sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev sudo apt-get install python-dev

It is more easy to install python-lxml and enable site-packages

Enable site-packages:

toggleglobalsitepackages

Pillow needs:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev
sudo apt-get install --reinstall zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev

async: How Do Python Coroutines Work?

Ref: