Run examples with Visual Studio Code

Install Code and Python

• Install Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• Install latest Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Run script

• Open folder containing scripts

• Confirm that you trust the author so the scripts can be run

• Install Python extension if Code asks

• Create virtual environment (Ctrl+Shift+P Python: Create Environment)

• Open terminal to install dependencies (Ctrl+Shift+P Terminal: Create New Terminal)

  • Windows: if an error regarding about Execution Policies occurs, change default terminal to Command Prompt instead of PowerShell: File -> Preferences -> Settings -> Features -> Terminal -> Integrated -> Default Profile: Windows -> Select Command Prompt
  • In terminal: pip install -r requirements-{operating_system}.txt
  • Windows + Python 3.11: If wordcloud cannot be installed, try installing wheel from here https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#wordcloud (pip install wordcloud-1.8.1-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl)
  • Linux/MacOS - ignore pywin32 dependency - remove from requirements.txt

• Replace hansken_host variable with the ip of your host

• Verify if the scripts contain Run Cell options -> Download ipykernel package if prompted

• Select default Python installation to use as kernel

• Linux: If <ipython-input-3-2c12d96ddab5>:7: UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg;, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure. this error pops up:

  • update imports to explicitly use a gui backend for matplotlib: matplotlib.use('tkAgg')
  • install tkinter pip install tkinter