I'm completely confused... partly because I decided to buy a Mac!
I play about with Python and Scikit-learn from time to time mostly on a Linux desktop. It was dead easy to install modules... "zypper install numpy" etc.
Then I bought a MacBook. Python 3.8 was already installed and I found I had to use commands like "python3 -m pip install -U matplotlib". I've no idea what -m and -U is for but that's what I found on the internet. If I check to see what is installed "pip list" or "python3 pip list" it tells me pip isn't installed.
I've no idea why but I decided to go the the Python website, download and install 3.10 and now when I use 3.10 in vscode none of the modules load. Apparently it's something to do with having them installed in a different environment?
What I really want to do now is work out how to uninstall 3.10 and stick with 3.8 simply for simplicity but Mac seems to make that an elusive task too!
A bit of a rant because I regret buying a Mac instead of something I could put Linux on but I would love to know how pip works!
Thank you for any help
I play about with Python and Scikit-learn from time to time mostly on a Linux desktop. It was dead easy to install modules... "zypper install numpy" etc.
Then I bought a MacBook. Python 3.8 was already installed and I found I had to use commands like "python3 -m pip install -U matplotlib". I've no idea what -m and -U is for but that's what I found on the internet. If I check to see what is installed "pip list" or "python3 pip list" it tells me pip isn't installed.
I've no idea why but I decided to go the the Python website, download and install 3.10 and now when I use 3.10 in vscode none of the modules load. Apparently it's something to do with having them installed in a different environment?
What I really want to do now is work out how to uninstall 3.10 and stick with 3.8 simply for simplicity but Mac seems to make that an elusive task too!
A bit of a rant because I regret buying a Mac instead of something I could put Linux on but I would love to know how pip works!
Thank you for any help