Summary and Setup

This is a new lesson built with The Carpentries Workbench.

Software Setup

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• Requirements:
• Python 3.11+ with Pip, setuptools packages Download Python | Python.org
• Bash-like environment for command-line

Windows

Git for Windows. Command Prompt/Powershell might be OK as well.

MacOS

Use Terminal.app

Linux

Use Terminal

• Make a folder for the exercises

mkdir qmi_course
cd qmi_course

• Make a virtual environment for running exercises

python -m venv venv
# Linux / MacOS Terminal
source venv/bin/activate
# Git bash on Windows
source venv/Scripts/activate
# Powershell, with possibly requred step to enable running scripts
set-executionpolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
.\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

• Install open-source QMI with Pip

pip install qmi

• Handy to have: IDE software, like PyCharm.