Software requirements

At the university, Python is pre-installed (certainly in Building 25 and 46 but as far as we know all across the campus, and in Malaysia), see here.

If you like to install Python on additional machines, please follow the installation instructions at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/blog/installation-of-python-spyder-numpy-sympy-scipy-pytest-matplotlib-via-anaconda.html which also provide a small testing program to check that the installation worked.

Once installed, you should be able to run a Python program such as hello.py which could just contain one line:

print("Hello World")

You can download the testing program introduced in http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/blog/installation-of-python-spyder-numpy-sympy-scipy-pytest-matplotlib-via-anaconda.html from here directly.

Here are detailed instructions to run your first Python program in spyder.