Install python 3
Both Python 3 and Python 2 have been pre-installed on Ubuntu 16, you just need to make sure you have the latest versions by running:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
Then run the following command to check the version of Python 3:
python -v
You also need to install pip to manage software packages:
sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
Install development libraries:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libffi-dev libssl-dev python3-dev
Setting up a virtual environment
sudo apt-get install python3-venv
mkdir environments
cd environments
python3 -m venv myenv
source myenv/bin/activate
Setting up python steem libraries
pip3 install wheel
pip3 install piston-lib
pip3 install steem
Test it works
To test the development environment has been set up correctly, run the following script to list the tags used by latest posts:
from piston import Steem
steem = Steem()
for c in steem.stream_comments():
if c.is_main_post():
print (c.meta["tags"])
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