How to setup python environment on Mac OS X Yosemite

On this page I describe how to setup python environment on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10).

Know issues

Now don't work some applications on OS X Yosemite:

• Gmail doesn't work - Mail app crashes on Yosemite. After update from Mavericks to Yosemite I have troubles with Mail app - it turned off after few seconds after launch. I have found this solution and it works well for me. Try it. It's easy and solve your problem. As I understand this problem appear if you have a lot of messages (1000+) into Gmail Inbox
• mongodb - was problem in Beta version of yosemite. In final version it was solved

HomeBrew

Before you start, open Terminal application and install Xcode command-line tool. It's required to install a lot of software on your Mac.

xcode-select --install

Install HomeBrew to have ability to install up-to-date software, like apt-get install in Ubuntu.

My list of brew software (use brew install [package_name]):

• memcached
• mercurial
• git
• mysql
• postgresql
• mongodb
• rabbitmq
• node
• wget
• --- optional ---
• zookeeper --with-python
• boost --with-python
• lynx
• cairo
• jpeg
• jsoncpp
• gettext
• glib
• libpng
• log4cpp

System changes

Edit nano ~/.profile file to have this lines:

# load all completions
source /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/*
# load virtual env wrapper
source virtualenvwrapper.sh
# Set architecture flags
export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
# Ensure user-installed binaries take precedence
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
# Load .bashrc if it exists
test -f ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Press Cmd + O to save file, Cmd + X to exit from nano. Run this command in terminal source ~/.profile to load changes.

Edit ~/.hgrc and insert info about my user:

[ui]
username = User Name <user@gmail.com>

Python tools

• brew install python installs python and pip
• pip install virtualenv
• pip install virtualenvwrapper

Django completion

Add autocompletion in terminal when we type manage.py or django-admin.py and press <tab> key two times

• cd /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/
• wget https://raw.github.com/django/django/master/extras/django_bash_completion
• source ~/.profile to affect changes

Post-installation

• create virtual environments for projects mkvirtualenv [env_name] and run pip install -r requirements.txt
• restore MySQL databases
• restore mongodb collections: 1. mongodump --out backup/ 2. mongorestore backup/

Software

This is my list of sofrware that I use:

• From App Store: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Pixelmator, iDraw, 1Password, The Unarchiver, Pocket
• DropBox
• Skype
• Google Chrome
• SourceTree
• MySQL Workbench
• Sublime Text 3
• Atom
• VirtualBox
• TunnelBlick - graphical OpenVPN for Mac
• uTorrent - torrent client
• Team Viewer - share your screen
• Google Music Manager - upload music to Google Play
• --- optional ---
• XMind - save your minds in graphical representation
• Inkspape - free vector graphic tool. Require to install XQuartz
• VLC Video Player

Setup OS X integration with web sites

• Login to google.com and auto-setup OS X to work with: mail, calendar, etc
• Login to facebook, twitter and linkedin and allow auto-setup OS X
• Login to github and bitbucket

Read also

• How to configure Atom editor on Yosemite