install libraries on device without internet

[mrish]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this forum and I have several questions to ask for help!

first, I saw some python alternative in here:

https://www.python.org/download/alternatives/

I'm looking for python alternative for programming numeric\scientific calculations, electronic instrument control (RS232, GPIB, USB). Having some camera image\video control and processing could be nice. I want it to have comfortable editor and compiler (more than the basic version) and all the required packages for the above applications - to work without internet connection.

For my case, the python alternative is to be installed in a computer without internet connection. therefore I want to install a version with all required packages included in advanced and start working.

I would be thankfull if anyone can direct me a suitable python alternative.

also, I have read some tutorial and found some online exercise, but I feel I will learn much more by some project and not an exercise.

Can someone direct me to some educational project list? (I'm a PhD in physics, and though I didn't know python I think I catch it fast and simple exercise practice are too trivial)

Thanks everyone!

[Larz60+]

for instrument control, you can use the PyVisa package
see: https://pyvisa.readthedocs.io/en/master/ to take a look.

As far as python version, you could use Anaconda, but before making your selection, I'd download and read (or at least skim): www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/training/python/pdfs/Python-for-Computational-Science-and-Engineering.pdf
The package availability allows you to customize the standard python to suit your needs.

Image control packages are available

You may want to take a look at www.PyPi.org and skim some of the 160,043 packages available
Any one of these packages can be added to standard python with the following simple command:

pip install packagename

As for editor, etc, I would recommend (and a lot of moderators will join me on this) VSCode
which has pretty much everything you need available on demand.
Here's a tutorial on how to properly install: https://python-forum.io/Thread-VS-Code-f...ght=VSCode

but I feel I will learn much more by some project and not an exercise.

couldn't agree more. I think this is the way that I learned all languages, even after formal education.

I did a lot of instrumentation control (I'm retired now) mainly in the field of spectra-chemical engineering.
Couldn't use python at the time, it was free, so management decided it unsuitable. It would have made life easier.

[ichabod801]

For numeric, statistical, and scientific calculations you might look at the numpy and pandas packages.

If you are looking for a project to learn Python with, you might check out our list of programming challenges and ideas.

[metulburr]

I'm looking for python alternative for programming numeric\scientific calculations, electronic instrument control (RS232, GPIB, USB). Having some camera image\video control and processing could be nice. I want it to have comfortable editor and compiler (more than the basic version) and all the required packages for the above applications - to work without internet connection.

the python alternative is to be installed in a computer without internet connection

You can download python and any 3rd party libs you need to a USB stick and install it on a computer without internet. You dont have to install something like Anaconda (although you could).