To check the Python version in your Jupyter notebook, first import the python_version function with “from platform import python_version“. Then call the function python_version() that returns a string with the version number running in your Jupyter notebook such as “3.7.11”. You can try this yourself in our interactive Jupyter notebook: Check Version Information Using sys … Read more
To check the Python version in your shell, you can use the following alternatives (aliases): Terminal: The following commands can be used to check the Python version in your terminal. Note that the first and second are aliases whereas the third one provides more information about the built. python –version python -V python -VV Note … Read more
Problem If you run Python in your terminal or shell, you may have realized that there are two ways to do so: using the “python” command and using the “py” command. What’s the difference? Example Say, you want to check your Python version. You can run both commands and the output is different! Here’s using … Read more
Problem Formulation Assuming you have the Python package manager pip installed in your operating system (Windows, Linux, macOS). How to check the version of a package with pip? Method 1: pip show To check which version of a given package is installed, use the pip show <your_package> command. For example, to check the version of … Read more
Python’s shutil.which(cmd) function returns the path to the executable that would run if you called cmd in the command line. If there is no such executable, it returns None. The shutil module is part of the standard library, so you only need to add the statement “import shutil” to your program without needing to install … Read more
I love tweaking my coding workflow. Small improvements accumulate over time and can lead to a massive productivity increase. Today, I caught myself being annoyed that I always needed to spend three clicks or so just to open a Python file in IDLE, the default Python editor on Windows. Time to change that! Do you … Read more
Windows normally installs Python on one of the two locations: C:\Python39 C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39 For me, it’s the latter. For you, it may be different—this article shows you how to check for yourself! 🙂 For your convenience, I’ve made a short gif that shows how I rushed through the code on my Windows machine: Before you start, … Read more
Introduction If you’re new to Python and have stumbled upon this question, then I invite you to read on as I discuss how to call a function from another file. You have most likely used some of Python’s built-in functions already like print() and len(). But what if you’ve defined your own function, saved it … Read more
You may have seen an import statement from . import your_module with the dot after the from keyword: What Does the Dot Mean? In Python, modules are defined in packages. If you want to import a certain module within a package that may be hierarchically structured, you need to specify the path of your module. … Read more
To check your TensorFlow version in your Jupyter Notebook such as Google’s Colab, use the following two commands: import tensorflow as tf This imports the TensorFlow library and stores it in the variable named tf. print(tf.__version__) This prints the installed TensorFlow version number in the format x.y.z. The following code example uses the dunder attribute … Read more
What is the NumPy Library? NumPy is a Python library that allows you to perform numerical calculations. Think about linear algebra in school (or university) – NumPy is the Python library for it. It’s about matrices and vectors – and doing operations on top of them. Get Version Number with np.__version__ To check the NumPy … Read more
What is the Pandas Library? The pandas library provides data structures and functionality to represent and manipulate labelled and tabular data. Think of it as like an advanced spreadsheet program in your code with functionality including—but not limited to: creating spreadsheets, accessing individual rows by name, calculating basic statistics over rows and columns, and summing … Read more