My Python Development Environment Setup - Full Tutorial

Today, I'll share with you how to set up your Development Environment for Python Code. These are the setups and environment that I recommend you use on a daily basis.

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00:00 | Intro
00:44 | Linode
01:45 | Virtual Environments/Anaconda
10:10 | Code Editor/VSCode
13:45 | Formatters
16:15 | Autocomplete/Intellisense
18:15 | VSCode Extensions

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- Tech With Tim
- Python Development
- Coding

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[uch]

this is exactly what i needed to start development after getting stuck in fancies for 12 hours, big up, keep the good work.

[gvikram]

Exactly what i needed to get into python development after couple of years. Thanks Tim

[jolenebett]

Thank you so much for explaining this, I've been struggling all week to understand environments and just got even more confused, this has helped greatly.

[nilutpaldas]

Much needed video, as I'm starting my data science journey, and I'm looking for complete setup from conda to vs code.

[fawadmahdi]

This was indeed very useful. Made all the environment variables stuff easier to understand and finally being able to run python within command prompt

[psd]

As a general rule, please try to avoid mixing conda and pip. It may not be much of an issue in this case, but i've been in datascience courses where the instructor did that... and later on it turns out conda can't keep track of the dependencies for things installed by pip and if you accidentally end up updating packages with conda, it breaks your environment.

[blubehriluv]

You always post at the perfect times Tim!

Wanted to add for anyone that is having issues with python/conda --version. Make sure to restart your CMD shell before running those. After installing VS Code, it says, "Add to PATH (requires shell restart)" so I assume that would've been the same case for the CMD. After intalling conda/python I received the error (can't find python or conda even though the where command worked perfectly), and after double checking my environments, I saw they were properly added to PATH. I just needed to restart my CMD.

[jeffzxy]

Very good video! covered all questions I had for using VScode for python! Thanks Tim!

[phaedrus]

I'm 64 years old, and I'm glad to see a young guy like yourself passionate about computers. I was fortunate, that just when I was leaving the Air Force, the PC craze was just starting, so that I was able to get in on the ground floor. Unfortunately, I made my living through other trades. I freely admit, I don't pick up concepts as fast as I used to, and you have pretty compact, and very efficient way of communicating. However, you seemed to have left a big hole in the Anaconda concept by not explaining thoroughly how to add a different version of Python in a virtual environment. I tried your suggested conda create --name programmingexpert python=3.10 method, and it didn't work. So, I watched another YouTube video and learned that it can be done by a much simpler, and more generic way of conda search python, for all of the newer, and older versions Python. Then, there are channels that Anaconda can use, such as conda search -c conda-forge python. I'm wondering, if that's what you meant: conda search -c programmingexpert python?

[tennotsukai]

Perfect instructions for what I've been looking for. Thanks.

[TheKristenLFoster]

Super helpful -- thanks for sharing this with us, Tim!

[jrgenolsen]

Very good tutorial... your choosing
VS code is a gode idea because every language (almost) are supported in
VS code...

[techmentormaria]

Omg I'm relearning python (last time I used it was 6 years ago) and this has been so helpful. Thank you!

[chrism]

What made you choose Anaconda for env management over something like pipenv?

[ML_Minded]

hey @TechWithTim, Thank you for your video, It help me solve my env issue.

[akatrosh]

I have a problem with this formatting, having the same dict as you, mine is formatted to be in 1 line. How to make it format like in your video? I'm using black formatter.

[Kolbri]

Thank you very much for this Tutorial!

[prashlovessamosa]

Thanks brother anaconda stuff help me alot i am a beginner thank you

[emilkhojayev]

When I type "conda" into cmd my terminal just freezes and doesn't return anything. I added conda to path what am I doing wrong?

[kasksahah]

when i put "conda activate <name>" it tells me to run "conda init" before, but when i do i just keeps repeating to run it before. what is happening? what do i do?