Python 3 Developer Environment Setup¶

Windows¶

Install Python¶

1. Download and install from python.org. At the time of this writing, "Python 3.10.8" is recommended. During install note these options:
   1. Choose Add python.exe to PATH
   2. Choose Disable path length limit
2. In Windows settings, search "Manage app execution aliases" and:
   1. Disable App Installer: python.exe
   2. Disable App Installer: python3.exe
   3. Disable App Installer: python3.7.exe
3. Browse in explorer to %AppData%\Local\Programs\Python\Python310 and copy python.exe to python3.exe

Install Git¶

1. Download and install from git-scm.org. During installation take the defaults except for:
   1. Configuring the line ending conversions: choose Checkout as-is, commit Unix-style line endings

Configure Git¶

From a command line:

1. git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"
2. git config --global user.email "MY_NAME@example.com"
3. Optional, if you want to set an editor: `git config --global core.editor "PATH TO EDITOR"

Clone the chirp git repository (py3 branch)¶

From a command line:

C:\Users\{user}\Documents> git clone https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp
C:\Users\{user}\Documents> cd chirp
C:\Users\{user}\Documents> git checkout origin/py3 -b py3

Install the python dependencies¶

1. python3 -mpip install -r requirements.txt
2. python3 -mpip install tox

Optional, but recommended: Install GitHub CLI¶

Via winget: winget install --id GitHub.cli or manually from github.com

Note: {user} as shown in paths above is the logged in Windows user
Note: The steps above were done on Windows 10 Pro, version 22H2