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Setting up a python development environment on OSX without needing to use sudo
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Assumptions

Using sudo for local development tooling is a bad idea. This is the bare minimum to get your python environment up and running so you can install pip and virtualenv at the user level and then continue to use [virtualenv][1] to get your own project environments running.

  • OSX 10.9+
  • You have homebrew installed
  • /usr/loca/bin is part of your $PATH

Find where the system python version is

$ ls /usr/local/lib | grep python
python2.7

Create a location to install future python packages

mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Create .pydistutils config file

Use your favourite editor.

subl ~/.pydistutils.cfg

Add the following lines

[install]
install_lib = /usr/local/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages
install_scripts = /usr/local/bin

Add PYTHONPATH to your .bash_profile or similar

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Now reload your configuration

source ~/.zshrc

Install pip with easy_install without sudo

easy_install pip

Install virtualenv

pip install virtualenv

References

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