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Best Python Flavor for ZOS-API?

  • July 20, 2020
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Mark.Nicholson
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Hey peeps,

There are many different flavors of Python available. If my interest in mainly in working with ZOS-API, are any of these flavors preferable over the others? What's the best Python distribution for ZOS-API?

- mark

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Mark.Nicholson
Luminary
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  • July 26, 2020

{Bump} Any preference? I'll just use Anaconda if not.


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Hi Mark

I'm using PyCharm as Michael H. but I haven't tried any other so it is not a recommendation really.

Sandrine


Sven.Stöttinger
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Hi Mark,

my personal preference is actually Anaconda. It's pretty convinient and straightforward in how to setup Python on your computer. In the end for the day-to-day work I think it comes down to your preferred IDE. For me the Spyder development environment works very well since I like its dark-color-scheme for the syntax coloring and the clear variable explorer which allows you to copy/paste data for some quick analysis or also makes it possible to interact with the variables or arrays which sometimes is quite useful.

Sven