VERIFYING THE PYTHON VERSION ON YOUR COMPUTER

Pymata Express utilizes the latest advances of the Python 3.7 asyncio library.

To check that you have Python 3.7 or greater installed open a command window and type:

python3 -V

For Windows, you may need to type:

python -V

The Python version will be displayed:

python3
Python 3.7.2 (default, Dec 31 2018, 14:25:33)
[GCC 8.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

For Windows users, this may look something like:


C:\Users\Alan>python
Python 3.7.2 (tags/v3.7.2:9a3ffc0492, Dec 23 2018, 23:09:28) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

INSTALLING PYTHON 3.7

Windows Users

To install Python 3.7 or later, go to the Python home page, and download the latest 3.7 (or later) distribution for your operating system.

If you have Python 2.7 installed, you do not need to remove it.

During the installation process, if there is a checkbox to add Python 3.7 to your path, make sure it is checked before proceeding with the installation.

Linux Users

If you are using Linux, here are the build and installation instructions

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-setuptools python-pip python-smbus
sudo apt-get install build-essential libncursesw5-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev openssl libreadline-dev libffi-dev
cd ~
mkdir build
cd build
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.2/Python-3.7.2.tgz
tar -zxvf Python-3.7.2.tgz
cd Python-3.7.2
./configure
make
sudo make install

Install pip For Debian based distributions:

  sudo apt-get install pip3-python

For all other distributions - refer to your distribution's instructions.

Mac Users

Install Python 3.7.x from https://www.python.org/downloads/ or via homebrew
Download get-pip.py from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py and install (this should already be installed if python was installed from python.org or homebrew):

curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3 get-pip.py

Verify The Python Installation

Use the procedure shown here to verify that you have successfully installed Python 3.7 on your computer.