Sep-21-2018, 11:20 AM
Hi to all forumers 
My name is Eugenio and I'm a python and R student. At this moment I'm trying to learn how to install and run python programs. I use python programs in trading, statistical analisys and web scraping. Every time I want to use a new program, the main obstacle is to install it in the right way. The best thing to do is to ask some help to the original developer but there are cases in which that it's not possible.
The next task I would like to accomplish is to use a program to scrape airbnb site to get data about rentals in my zone.
The program is here
https://github.com/tomslee/airbnb-data-collection
The developer is Tomslee but he says he's no more answering question from users:
http://tomslee.net/2017/10/airbnb-data-c...ement.html
So I'm trying to install and run the code by myself. Here are the steps till now
1. I have installed python ver 3.7 on a windows 8.1 system
2. I have changed the path variable in windows/system
3. I have downloaded the software from github and copied it in a subdir of c:\python_37 directory
Then I tried to run the airbnb.py file and I started to get error messages. They regarded python libraries not installed. I solved the first few error msgs by installing the required libraries.
Now the FIRST question arises:
In the Tomslee software there is this file:
requirements
When I type the
installed modules
Then do I have to install all the libraries present in requirements-txt and not present in my python installation?
However when I try to run the airbnb.py file I get this error msg:
ERROR Configuration file eugenio.config not found.
Reading the airbnb_config.py I think that error msg is about a config file that should exist in some windows directory. Is that right?
Thanks a lot to all will help me. I know that I will ask the forum a gazillion question, but I think it should be interesting for users to follow a python software installation from beginning to the end. What I've learned right now is that installing python software is even more important than knowing how to code it. And I haven't find on Coursera and others a lot of tutorials about this task.
My name is Eugenio and I'm a python and R student. At this moment I'm trying to learn how to install and run python programs. I use python programs in trading, statistical analisys and web scraping. Every time I want to use a new program, the main obstacle is to install it in the right way. The best thing to do is to ask some help to the original developer but there are cases in which that it's not possible.
The next task I would like to accomplish is to use a program to scrape airbnb site to get data about rentals in my zone.
The program is here
https://github.com/tomslee/airbnb-data-collection
The developer is Tomslee but he says he's no more answering question from users:
http://tomslee.net/2017/10/airbnb-data-c...ement.html
So I'm trying to install and run the code by myself. Here are the steps till now
1. I have installed python ver 3.7 on a windows 8.1 system
2. I have changed the path variable in windows/system
3. I have downloaded the software from github and copied it in a subdir of c:\python_37 directory
Then I tried to run the airbnb.py file and I started to get error messages. They regarded python libraries not installed. I solved the first few error msgs by installing the required libraries.
Now the FIRST question arises:
In the Tomslee software there is this file:
requirements
When I type the
help("modules") command I get this stuff:installed modules
Then do I have to install all the libraries present in requirements-txt and not present in my python installation?
However when I try to run the airbnb.py file I get this error msg:
ERROR Configuration file eugenio.config not found.
Reading the airbnb_config.py I think that error msg is about a config file that should exist in some windows directory. Is that right?
Thanks a lot to all will help me. I know that I will ask the forum a gazillion question, but I think it should be interesting for users to follow a python software installation from beginning to the end. What I've learned right now is that installing python software is even more important than knowing how to code it. And I haven't find on Coursera and others a lot of tutorials about this task.