Anaconda Python Mac Download
This tutorial will help you to install Anaconda for Mac OS.
- Anaconda for Mac Once the download has completed, double click on the downloaded.pkg file and follow the installation instructions. Once the install is complete, and once you close your current terminal and open a new one, typing python in your terminal window should invoke the Anaconda Python interpreter.
- Installing Anaconda (Python and Jupyter Notebook) in mac OS for Machine Learning. Although you have download the latest version of Python in Anaconda Web link — https://www.anaconda.com.
Python is a widely used high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C or Java.
Anaconda is both a package manager, python distribution and is incredibly useful for data tasks as it comes bundled with many scientific packages including sci-kit learn, SciPy, Pandas and NumPy.
Additionally it’s the recommended method for installing Jupyter Notebooks.
Installing Anaconda
Personally I prefer to install Python via the graphical interface because it’s a friendly and easy method.
1. Firstly visit the Anaconda website where you will have the choice to install either Python 2.7 or Python 3. I would recommend downloading the Python 3x. because this will be more supported in the future.
2. After successfully downloading Anaconda, locate it within your download folder and double click on the .pkg file.
3. Click continue.
4 – You will now start the Anaconda3 installer process, click continue.
5. The installer provides a notification saying that it will update your bash profile and will install Anaconda3 within your PATH. Click continue.
6. Click continue to reveal the License Agreement.
7. Now you will need to read and click Agree for the Anaconda licensing agreement, then click continue.
7. Click on the install button.
8. You will need to enter your password which is the same as your Mac login password. Then click Install Software.
9. Click on Continue.
10. After completing the installation simply click close. Then you can move the Anaconda installer file to the trash bin.