Or where is there a published list of the supported versions of Python for Visual Studio Code?
Also if one's machine's OS makes a difference that would be helpful to know as well.
According to their documentation, if you link to what "a supported Python", is, the requirements are "whichever version of Python you want to use". And they explicitly include:
The built-in Python installation on Linux.
An installation through Homebrew on macOS using brew install python3 (the system install of Python on macOS is not supported).
A download from python.org.
A download from Anaconda (for data science purposes).
Of course python.org has versions all the way back to 0.9.1, although I suspect anything older than the 2.0.1 in the main downloads doesn't really count.
More realistically, they probably only test with current Python versions, which as of right now means 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, and maybe 3.7 prereleases. If you wanted to use 2.5 or 3.3, you might well get syntax highlighting and error fly-checking based on 2.7 or 3.5 grammar, etc. But actually running your code should still work.
Also, if you're on a Mac and thinking of Homebrew, it's worth noting that brew install python3 will give you an error; the package is just called python now, and you install python for 3.x and python#2 for 2.x.
Microsoft's Python Extension for VS Code actually let you select an interpreter from a list of detected or manually set environments (CMD-Shift-P/Ctrl-Shift-P -> Python: Select Interpreter), so it should work with latest version of any interpreter, as long as is supported by the OS (remember that VS Code and its extensions are hosted in Electron). Source
I'm badly confused. I have very little problem with the Python language, but setting up Python seems to be beyond me.
I have a Windows 7 machine. I have installed the 64-bit version of Python 3.6 (more about why 64 bits later). I need the pyodbc module. I also have the 32-bit version of Python 3.5, and pyodbc is installed in its site-packages folder. The first time I tried to get pyodbc for 3.6, pip told me the requirement was already fulfilled by the version in 3.5. Then, I found the --ignore-installed option and successfully (?) installed it in my 3.6 folder.
When I open my project in PyCharm and select my 64-bit Python 3.6 as the interpreter, PyCharm shows me the pyodbc package. But when I open the file in which pyodbc is imported, PyCharm highlights the import line and tells me it can't find pyodbc. Just in case PyCharm was confused, I tried running my program from a command window, and got the same error.
Do I have to set an environment variable? I didn't have one set when I used pyodbc in a project using Python 3.5, and I had no problem.
I am trying to use 64-bit Python because a customer requires us to write into their Oracle database. They installed an ODBC driver for us, into their standard DSN list. But since we installed a 32-bit version of Python on their system, the only DSNs it can see are those installed in the 32-bit list of DSNs. If there is some easy way to use the 64-bit Oracle ODBC driver from 32-bit Python, I'd appreciate learning about it.
Thanks again.
I read here that
On Windows, your Python version must match the version used to compile Mercurial. Otherwise, you'll get "Invalid Magic Number" errors when trying to run the CGI. The pre-compiled Windows binaries for Mercurial 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 1.2.x and 1.3.x were compiled with Python 2.5.
I looked online but I dont see a lookup table for this information.
Where can I find it?
If you're on Windows you want to install TortoiseHG. It provides the full Mercurial command line, a GUI with Windows shell integration, and the right version of Python all compiled in together.
The various HG installation packages have the required Python version in their name. You can also look it up in the release notes for the package.
I'm having an issue with the line:
from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite
The error i'm getting is:
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysqlite2/_sqlite.so: undefined symbol: sqlite3_enable_shared_cache
What can I do to solve this problem?
Thanks!
Sounds like _sqlite.so was compiled against a newer version of sqlite than you have installed. That function wasn't added to SQLite's API until version 3.5.0.
The easiest way around this problem is to get the AS package Python 2.6 or later from Activestate and install that. It comes with SQLITE in the standard library.
The AS package is a tarball and you install it in a user directory by running a shell script after unpacking the archive. This does not touch any of the Python bits installed with your system, and gives you a fully controlled Python environment that is easy to replicate on other systems regardless of the distro.
Python's packaging system doesn't interoperate well with Linux distro package systems, especially because the Linux distros can be considerably out of date.
I am finding it difficult to use MySQL with Python in my windows system.
I am currently using Python 2.6. I have tried to compile MySQL-python-1.2.3b1 (which is supposed to work for Python 2.6 ?) source code using the provided setup scripts. The setup script runs and it doesn't report any error but it doesn't generate _mysql module.
I have also tried setting up MySQL for Python 2.5 with out success. The problem with using 2.5 is that Python 2.5 is compiled with visual studio 2003 (I installed it using the provided binaries). I have visual studio 2005 on my windows system. Hence setuptools fails to generate _mysql module.
Any help ?
Download page for python-mysqldb. The page includes binaries for 32 and 64 bit versions of for Python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7.
There's also discussion on getting rid of the deprecation warning.
UPDATE: This is an old answer. Currently, I would recommend using PyMySQL. It's pure python, so it supports all OSes equally, it's almost a drop-in replacement for mysqldb, and it also works with python 3. The best way to install it is using pip. You can install it from here (more instructions here), and then run:
pip install pymysql
This may read like your grandpa givin advice, but all answers here did not mention the best way: go nd install ActivePython instead of python.org windows binaries. I was really wondering for a long time why Python development on windows was such a pita - until I installed activestate python. I am not affiliated with them. It is just the plain truth. Write it on every wall: Python development on Windows = ActiveState!
you then just pypm install mysql-python and everything works smoothly. no compile orgy. no strange errors. no terror. Just start coding and doing real work after five minutes.
This is the only way to go on windows. Really.
As Python newbie learning the Python ecosystem I've just completed this.
Install setuptools instructions
Install MySQL 5.1. Download the 97.6MB MSI from here You can't use the essentials version because it doesnt contain the C libraries.
Be sure to select a custom install, and mark the development tools / libraries for installation as that is not done by default. This is needed to get the C header files.
You can verify you have done this correctly by looking in your install directory for a folder named "include". E.G C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\include. It should have a whole bunch of .h files.
Install Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Express 2008 from here This is needed to get a C compiler.
Open up a command line as administrator (right click on the Cmd shortcut and then "run as administrator". Be sure to open a fresh window after you have installed those things or your path won't be updated and the install will still fail.
From the command prompt:
easy_install -b C:\temp\sometempdir mysql-python
That will fail - which is OK.
Now open site.cfg in your temp directory C:\temp\sometempdir and edit the "registry_key" setting to:
registry_key = SOFTWARE\MySQL AB\MySQL Server 5.1
now CD into your temp dir and:
python setup.py clean
python setup.py install
You should be ready to rock!
Here is a super simple script to start off learning the Python DB API for you - if you need it.
I found a location were one person had successfully built mysql for python2.6, sharing the link, http://www.technicalbard.com/files/MySQL-python-1.2.2.win32-py2.6.exe
...you might see a warning while import MySQLdb which is fine and that won’t hurt anything,
C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb__init__.py:34: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
from sets import ImmutableSet
What about pymysql? It's pure Python, and I've used it on Windows with considerable success, bypassing the difficulties of compiling and installing mysql-python.
You're not the only person having problems with Python 2.6 and MySQL (http://blog.contriving.net/2009/03/04/using-python-26-mysql-on-windows-is-nearly-impossible/). Here's an explanation how it should run under Python 2.5 http://i.justrealized.com/2008/04/08/how-to-install-python-and-django-in-windows-vista/
Good luck
The precompiled binaries on http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysql-python is just worked for me.
Open MySQL_python-1.2.5-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl file with zip
extractor program.
Copy the contents to
C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\
On Python 3.4 I've installed mysqlclient from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ with pip install mysqlclient and it's working.
You can try to use myPySQL. It's really easy to use; no compilation for windows, and even if you need to compile it for any reason, you only need Python and Visual C installed (not mysql).
http://code.google.com/p/mypysql/
Good luck
There are Windows binaries for MySQL-Python (2.4 & 2.5) available on Sourceforge. Have you tried those?
Because I am running python in a (pylons/pyramid) virtualenv, I could not run the binary installers (helpfully) linked to previously.
I had problems following the steps with Willie's answer, but I determined that the problem is (probably) that I am running windows 7 x64 install, which puts the registry key for mysql in a slightly different location, specifically in my case (note: I am running version 5.5) in: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MySQL AB\MySQL Server 5.5".
HOWEVER, "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\" cannot be included in the path or it will fail.
Also, I had to do a restart between steps 3 and 4.
After working through all of this, IMO it would have been smarter to run the entire python dev environment from cygwin.
If you are looking for Python 3.2 this seems the best solution I found so far
for Python 2.4 - 3.2 PyMySQL
for Python 2.3 - 2.6 MySQL for Python
Source: http://wiki.python.org/moin/MySQL
You might want to also consider making use of Cygwin, it has mysql python libraries in the repository.
You can also use pyodbc with the MySQL Connector/ODBC to use MySQL on Windows. Unixodbc is also available to make the code compatible on Linux. Pyodbc uses the standard Python DB API 2.0 so if you stick with that switching between MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite/ODBC/JDBC drivers etc. should be relatively painless.
upvoted itsadok's answer because it led me to the installation for python 2.7 as well, which is located here: http://www.codegood.com/archives/129
Got sick of the installation troubles with MySQLdb and tried pymysql instead.
Easy setup;
git clone https://github.com/petehunt/PyMySQL.git
python setup.py install
And APIs are pretty much the same.