Download Anaconda for a hassle-free way of configuring your development environment.
Download the Python 3 version b/c Python 2 is no longer maintained
If you're wondering "Why not use
virutalenv
and/orpip
?", Anaconda (aka conda) is built specifically for working with the data science ecosystem of languages (Python, R, Julia) and libraries (scipy, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, plotly/matplotlib), many of which require non-Python build requirements like C/C++ and Fortran compilers.