Here is a quick way to setup python and django on the fly in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
1. Python 2.7
It’s better to use stable / latest Python version for development. At this time, I use Python version 2.7.3 for development. You can grab this at http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/. Just click on .dmg files and install. Later you should do : “source ~/.bash_profile” to make this Python 2.7 as primary.
2. Install setuptools python 2.7
Download setuptools .egg files in http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/#credits and install by “sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg” :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | Processing setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Copying setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages Adding setuptools 0.6c11 to easy-install.pth file Installing easy_install script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin Installing easy_install-2.7 script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin Installed /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c11 Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c11 |
3. Install pip, virtualenv and virtualwrapper
Then we need to install this 3 python modules. Don’t worry, we no need “sudo” here because from now, all of this python modules installed inside “/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/”.
1 2 3 | easy_install pip pip install virtualenv pip install virtualenvwrapper |
Edit your ~/.bash_profile for enabling virtualenvwrapper :
1 2 3 4 | export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs source /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME # Tell pip to create its virtualenvs in $WORKON_HOME. export PIP_RESPECT_VIRTUALENV=true # Tell pip to automatically use the currently active virtualenv. |
Then you should load your ~/bash_profile by :
1 | source ~/.bash_profile |
Let’s play with virtualenv by creating a new one :
1 | mkvirtualenv –no-site-packages –distribute trading |
For leaving virtualenv environment, you can use “deactivate”. To change or go to virtualenv, use “workon” Or “workon” to see all virtualenv.
Go to Virtualenvwrapper folder by :
1 | cd $WORKON_HOME |
Let setup your environment default directory by :
1 2 3 | cd $WORKON_HOME cd /bin vim postactivate |
Now you should put your startup-folder, eg:
1 | cd ~/htdocs/my-folder-here |
We can change Terminal color virtualenvwrapper by edit $WORKON_HOME/postactivate :
1 2 3 | #!/bin/bash # This hook is run after every virtualenv is activated. PS1="[e[34;1m](`basename "$VIRTUAL_ENV"`)[e[0m] $_OLD_VIRTUAL_PS1" |
4. Install MySQL
Download MySQL 64bit for Mac OS X from mysql.com. After installation, you need to do symbolic link libmysqlclient to make it working with MySQL-Python module.
1 | sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.5.23-osx10.6-x86_64/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib |
It’s depend on your MySQL version.
5. Install homebrew
http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/. After you install brew, then you can start installing git and other stuff like :
1 | brew install git bash-completion wget |
Load bash-completion to get ps1 in Terminal by add this into .bash_profile :
1 2 3 | if [ -f `brew –prefix`/etc/bash_completion ]; then . `brew –prefix`/etc/bash_completion fi |
This is my completed .bash_profile :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | # Setting PATH for Python 2.7 # The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}" export PATH #enables color in the terminal bash shell export #sets up the color scheme for list export export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced alias ls=’ls -G’ alias ll=’ls -hl’ if [ -f `brew –prefix`/etc/bash_completion ]; then . `brew –prefix`/etc/bash_completion fi export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs source /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME # Tell pip to create its virtualenvs in $WORKON_HOME. export PIP_RESPECT_VIRTUALENV=true # Tell pip to automatically use the currently active virtualenv. source /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash export PS1='[ 33[01;32m]u@h[ 33[00m]:[ 33[01;36m]w[ 33[00m] $(__git_ps1 "[[e[34;1m]%s[e[0m]]")$ ‘ export PATH=/usr/local/mysql-5.5.23-osx10.6-x86_64/bin:$PATH |
6. Install django
Simple as “pip install django” 🙂