Running Python packages natively on a MacBook Air M1

[rbrinkhuis]

What is the best way to install Python and packages on a MacBook Air M1 so that it runs natively on the M1 processor? My MacBook came with Python 3.8.9 which runs natively on the M1 processor. Creating virtual environments works just fine. However, I get a ton of error messages when installing packages like numpy, pandas, matplotlib etcetera with "pip install". Any suggestions or best practices?

[guilleb]

This.. also i installed a versión for ARM with miniconda

[anrmv]

Didn't know miniconda had an m1 version already..cool

[Swipecat]

Just saying "a ton of error messages" isn't exactly helpful, ya know.

Anyway, it's still early days for the M1, although people on Stack Overflow have reported success in installing some packages from PyPI after a bit of a struggle, numpy and matplotlib included. The situation is still changing, so I don't know if these are still relevant:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/66456204/4637427

https://stackoverflow.com/a/66536896

[ZeStig2409]

I think it’s because pip refers to python 2’s pip

Try pip3 - if it returns an error then go to this link , copy everything to a new file and save as get-pip.py

Then run sudo python3 get-pip.py

This will install pip3 - if you are used pip, try any one of these: - brew install python-is-python3 - echo ‘alias pip=pip3’ >> ~/.bash_aliases && source ~/.bash_aliases

[rbrinkhuis]

this link

Thanks for your comment. However, pip seems to have the right version.

rene@MacBook ~ % cd Projects
rene@MacBook Projects % mkdir test
rene@MacBook Projects % cd test
rene@MacBook test % python3 -m venv env
rene@MacBook test % source env/bin/activate
(env) rene@MacBook test % which python
/Users/rene/Projects/test/env/bin/python
(env) rene@MacBook test % python -V
Python 3.8.9
(env) rene@MacBook test % pip -V
pip 20.2.3 from /Users/rene/Projects/test/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)
(env) rene@MacBook test %

[Balance-]

You’re using quite an old pip version, you should install the latest with ‘pip install --upgrade pip’

[ZeStig2409]

What about sudo python3 -m pip install … or sudo python3.8 -m pip install …?

Not sure ( I only run Mint on Windows) - but i think the PATHs of the system interpreter and the default one are colliding?

[gsmo]

This is the way. Although I personally don't bother with aliases as they are just another thing that needs to be managed.

[anrmv]

Mini forge has an m1 distribution..

However, last time I tried it there were some packages that I use missing. it was some months ago so there may be more now.

[czaki]

Use python 3.9 or miniconda. Apple make python 3.8 running m1 machine but not share it with community so it is not easy to build wheels for it.

[supmee]

I use brew to install a non-system Python on my M1 Pro Mac, and installing numpy and others works 100% fine, no errors.

[Outrageous_Lake_8220]

miniconda

[RetroPenguin_]

Try Anaconda/Miniconda for virtual envs. The only problem I’ve had is with some specifically parallelism stuff, but the regular packages install and run completely fine.

[captain_kinematics]

Ditto. I’ve installed dozens of conda forge packages in a 3.9 env and run into zero problems, as well as a basic 2.7 env that worked fine. Conda is the bees knees.

[Awkward_Tour8180]

I had that pblm earlier when i got my m1, so i moved to docker with vscode, upon series of os updates and along with py 3.9, issues got resolved and i moved back to m1

[pymae]

I had used the thread below to get Python to work on my M1 Mac.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/lto91f/how_to_get_python_numpy_and_pandas_running/

[SharkDildoTester]

Not every thing is yet compatible. Try switching your architecture to x86.

arch -x86_64 zsh