{"id":5089,"date":"2013-09-10T18:14:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:14:35","slug":"installing-python-3-3-on-anaconda-python-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5089","title":{"rendered":"Installing Python 3.3 on Anaconda Python for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with a colleague, I&#8217;ve been playing around with <a href=\"https:\/\/store.continuum.io\/cshop\/anaconda\/\">Anaconda Python<\/a> recently and am very impressed with it. At the time of writing, it is at version 1.7 and comes with Python 2.7.5 by default but you can install Python 3.3 using their <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.continuum.io\/conda\/\">conda package manager<\/a>.\u00a0 After you&#8217;ve installed Anaconda, just start up a Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and do<\/p>\n<pre>conda update conda\r\nconda create -n py33 python=3.3 anaconda<\/pre>\n<p>It will chug along for a while, downloading and installing packages before leaving you with a Python 3.3 environment that is completely separated from the default 2.7.5 environment. All you have to do to activate Python 3.3 is issue the following command at the Windows command prompt<\/p>\n<pre>activate py33<\/pre>\n<p>To demonstrate that the standard anaconda build remains untouched, launch cmd.exe, type ipython and note that you are still using Python 2.7.5<\/p>\n<pre>Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]\r\nCopyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.\r\n\r\nC:\\Users\\testuser&gt;ipython\r\nPython 2.7.5 |Anaconda 1.7.0 (64-bit)| (default, Jul  1 2013, 12:37:52) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]\r\nType \"copyright\", \"credits\" or \"license\" for more information.\r\n\r\nIPython 1.0.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.\r\n?         -&gt; Introduction and overview of IPython's features.\r\n%quickref -&gt; Quick reference.\r\nhelp      -&gt; Python's own help system.\r\nobject?   -&gt; Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.\r\n\r\nIn [1]:<\/pre>\n<p>Exit out of ipython and activate the py33 environment before launching ipython again. This time, note that you are using Python 3.3.2<\/p>\n<pre>In [1]: exit()\r\n\r\nC:\\Users\\testuser&gt;activate py33\r\nActivating environment \"py33\"...\r\n\r\n[py33] C:\\Users\\testuser&gt;ipython\r\nPython 3.3.2 |Anaconda 1.7.0 (64-bit)| (default, May 17 2013, 11:32:27) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]\r\nType \"copyright\", \"credits\" or \"license\" for more information.\r\n\r\nIPython 1.0.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.\r\n?         -&gt; Introduction and overview of IPython's features.\r\n%quickref -&gt; Quick reference.\r\nhelp      -&gt; Python's own help system.\r\nobject?   -&gt; Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.\r\n\r\nIn [1]:<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with a colleague, I&#8217;ve been playing around with Anaconda Python recently and am very impressed with it. 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