How to check whether I have IPython installed on my machine and what sequence to install these libraries?

Question

I need to use python for a machine learning course and I also need to install some external libraries. I\'m a bit confused as to what the correct order is for installation o

Answer 1

You can simply check the version, as we do with other software packages to check if a software package is installed properly or not.

Type in your terminal.

ipython --version

It'll print the version if ipython is installed properly.

Answer 2

It is so simple to get all IPython, Matplotlib, Scipy etc. now that you have Python 2.7 installed. If this is for a course, I assume you have a .edu email address with this institution? If so just go here: http://www.enthought.com/products/edudownload.php

Submit your info. Download and install it like any other program. You will then be able to call ipython from the terminal. Or to use matplotlib call ipython --pylab from the terminal.

Definitely do not go about installing the libraries one-by-one unless you are very familiar with how that works.