Needless to say I'm not very good at setting up IDEs yet. I have about four different projects I'm working on right now and I decided I'd like to have some mobility by being able to take my MacBook around and still code with it away from my PC.
Setting up Visual Studio on my PC was really simple. It had a checklist of extensions/developer languages to choose from at install and Python was right there. Fast forward to installing it on my MacBook and it pretty much has C#, F#, and that's it.
Am I missing something obvious like Python doesn't work on MacOS?
It 100% should be available. You should be able to install it directly from the Extensions tab. If you don't find it, here's a video I found that goes step-by-step through setting up VSCode for Python on MacOS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06I63_p-2A4
Yes it should be downloadable. Just go to the extensions tab and install python from there. Python should work in VS Code Mac.
Thanks for the replies! I looked into extensions and that still ended up being a dead end. I did notice that you two mentioned VS Code while I was strictly looking at the VS IDE. Turns out the Mac version of VS IDE does not support Python from install while the Windows version does. Either way at this point I'm going to use Eclipse haha.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/#vs_mac_table
Please note that I am a complete beginner and installed python simply by going to the website and clicking "install". It used to work fine.
Now suddenly I have this frustrating situation where I can run just about anything in the idle.exe found in the scripts section of arcgispro, but cannot run the same .py file in an IDE. As a beginner this is obviously a headache as I would like auto code formatting, suggestions, etc. Literally any IDE would be fine (spyder, pycharm). The problem is that every single time there is some kind of error with the package imports. e.g. from pycharm:
import shapefile ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'shapefile'
It's not just shapefile... this is happened at random times with numpy and also matplotlib.
When I look at "Installed Apps" on windows, it just says Python 3.10.0 and Python Launcher.
No, there is no file that I created called "shapefile.py"
A lot of solutions suggest things with pip... I have absolutely no idea what pip is...is it installed program? where do I find that?
EDIT: I just found out that the system paths of the two are different so this explains why one works but the other doesn't... but how can I make it so that the IDE would work?
Ok, simple answer:
In Pycharm, go to the bottom and click on Python Console. Then type pip install pyshp. Voila! Assuming it works for other packages as well. Still do not know where to make pycharm work with the other environment...
well I made something and want to show it to some of my friends but since they are not into coding they don’t have python installed in their computers is it necessary to download it?
Create your program into an executable so it eliminates the Python installation dependency.
Ref - https://datatofish.com/executable-pyinstaller/
When writing Python code using compiled extensions (the OpenCV Python bindings, for example), PyCharm doesn't seem to be aware of their availability. The imports are marked with a grey underline, saying "unresolved reference" as a tooltip, and autocomplete doesn't work, either. (Except for the function names already used in the code.)
This isn't caused by wrong module paths, the code runs without error when started. Also, after I import the modules in a Python shell, autocomplete starts working as expected.
Is there a solution for that or is this an architectural limitation for compiled extensions? Are there any other IDEs that manage to cope with this problem?
The imports are marked with a grey underline, saying "unresolved reference" as a tooltip
This most probably means that PyCharm can't see the module you import. In editing mode, PyCharm relies on availability of Python sources of imported modules. If a module is not written in Python but is a C extension module, PyCharm generates a 'skeleton' that contains function prototypes, and uses it for completion.
In shell mode, PyCharm uses live imported objects for completion, with slightly different results.
Make sure that your OpenCV installation is visible for the Python interpreter you chose for the project (File / Settings / Python interpreter). If the interpreter is correct, try removing and re-adding it (this is time-consuming a bit, sorry).
If nothing helps, file a bug.
I have noticed a difference in pycharm behavior depending on the way to import.
using:
import cv2
the auto completion doesn't work,
while with:
from cv2 import cv2
auto completion works
I had to hardlink the binary into the folder lib-dynload of my interpreter.
$ cd /usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload
$ sudo ln /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/cv2/python-3.7/cv2.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so cv2.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
The paths may vary in your environment. I didn't test it on OSX or Windows, but it may work there too. The lib-dynload folder is here:
PyCharm currently does not scan compiled extensions/binaries which are in a path manually added to the interpreter in the IDE. I have filed a bug with Jetbrains in YouTrack. You might want to have a look at it and possibly the discussion I initiated in their discussion forum (link is in the bug description). I'd appreciate if you could vote for this issue to be resolved in YouTrack if you are a PyCharm user facing the same problem.
Try clicking "Reload" button in File | Settings | IDE Settings | Python interpreters. That got it working for me.
In my case on OS X 10.8 and PyCharm 3, IDE was automatically picking different installations of Python. I noticed this in Eclipse Pydev, which picked up the one right one and worked as expected. It was not easy to notice the difference between the two:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
I follow the instructions under this question:
How to install OpenCV on Windows and enable it for PyCharm without using the package manager
After that it does not work and I reinstall the pycharm ide without any other changes and now it is working perfectly.
I know that this is not the best answer, but after a lot of time wasted and trying different workarounds this was the one that solve my problem, I hope it can help you.
After two days test,I finally fix this issue:
The difference:
Uninstall python 3.7.2,install python 3.7.7.
Change the path where python install.(I strongly doubt that the cause is that my PATH of opencv-python has some Chinese characters.It should have only English).
Then do:
Install the opencv-contrib-python.
I hate to give a "works for me" answer, but maybe the details on my environment will help you identify the problem on your end.
I've never used PyCharm before, but I just did a test on Mac 10.6.6 using PyCharm 1.1.1, with Macports opencv +python26. The autocomplete worked fine for me the first time. I also closed and re-ran PyCharm and was able to autocomplete without doing anything further. I also had no issue with autocomplete for other native extensions I tried like cjson, procname.
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Perhaps it is a platform-specific issue (Windows?), or a bug affecting an older version of PyCharm?
In my case, include opencv in the path install-opencv-4-on-windows. and add it to the project settings, if none of this works for you, I recommend that you install anaconda change the python interpreter and use the anaconda interpreter.
for this go to : file -> settings -> project:test -> python interpreter and select conda interpreter
if you dont have anaconda you can download at https://www.anaconda.com/
follow the steps in the link python-opencv to install opencv in anaconda
I'm having a problem installing python packages and I think it has to do with the fact that I apparently have 4 Python directories. I can download and install them without a problem using pip... but when trying to import them in an IDE they don't appear.
Any help would be appreciated and I should say that I'm a complete beginner.
That's a really tricky issue specific to OS X, and also hard to fix. The root cause is the fact the GUI apps and console apps do not share the same environment (with things like PATH and PYTHONPATH).
Read https://stackoverflow.com/a/588442/99834