[Pythonmac-SIG] Using Python on Mac

[Christopher Barker]

it looks like vPython (I'm assuming vPhython was a typo) is fairly up to
date:

https://vpython.org/presentation2018/install.html

as is pyserial:

https://pypi.org/project/pyserial/#history

I would go with vPython's advise to use conda to get both vPython and
pyserial.

-CHB

(note: I recommend "miniconda" -- and then install exactly what else you
need)



On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:51 AM Jack Jansen <jack.jansen at cwi.nl> wrote:

> Guido,
> if I googled correctly that “Python and Arduino” series is from 2014. At
> that time there was something to be said for using Python 2.7, but in 2020
> that is no longer true. And, actually, since Python 2.7 has finally been
> moved to end-of-life last year many tutorials that refer to Python 2.7
> specifically will stop to work (as you have found out).
>
> Your best bet is to ignore all the version numbers Paul McWorther mentions
> in his tutorial, and try to download the latest version of everything. See
> how far that gets you.
>
> You’re not the first one to run into this problem, as you can see from the
> comments under the video, but unfortunately none of the people that came
> across the Python 2.7 issues added comments saying what they had to do to
> run the tutorial in 2020. If you get it to work: maybe add a comment to the
> video to say what you had to change to make it work?
>
> And feel free to post problems here,
>
> Jack
>
> On  29-Dec-2020, at 19:29 , Guido Deboeck <guido54321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In Lesson 2 of Python and Arduino by Paul McWhorter he suggest downloading
> Python 2.7 rather than the more recent version 3.x. He also suggests to
> download pyserial 2.7 as well as vPhython. I have search for pyserial 2.7
> and have not been able to find it on the web As to vPhython I found
> PyCharm, but that is not for free. Could you pls help me to find pyserial
> 2.7 as well as vPhython for use on a Mac. Thank you.
>
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