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Which Python version should I use?

Short version: Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language and 3.6 is the new hotness and I won't do it below that.

-- Should I use Python 2 or Python 3 for my development activity?

... nuff said.

To be more exact: Python 3.6

There are a lot of great additions in Python 3.6 - most of them backwards compatible, but I will use at least one backwards incompatible feature in this project: f-strings - because I can :D

Note

It might already be installed. Type python on the commandline and see if a Python REPL opens and which version it reports. If the standard python interpreter is still Python2 on your system, try typing python3 instead and see if you are lucky. If not get it here: Python3.

[In a virtualenv]

Note

The installation of this package in a virtualenv is is not necessary but recommended. It is worth learning to work with virtualenvs as early as possible anyway.

You should really install this in a virtualenv. This should work out of the box. If not, you might be on Linux and are bitten by this. sudo apt-get install python3-pip should solve the problem - otherwise have a look at the pip documentation.

$ python3.6 -m venv mau-mau-env

Activation of virtualenvs is sadly still one of the things that is not os independent, so you will have to look here how to do that in your os. The most common cases are:

$ source mau-mau-env/bin/activate  # most linux shells
$ mau-mau-env\Scripts\activate.bat  # Windows cmd.exe

Deactivate with:

$ deactivate

... from Github

Install the latest code directly from github by typing on the command line:

$ pip install "git+https://github.com/obestwalter/mau-mau.git#egg=mau-mau"

To install a specific version just replace master with the version you want to install (e.g. 1.1.0). The different versions can be seen in the release section of a Github project.

... from .zip file

On the releases page you can download zip archives and install them by typing on the command line:

$ pip install </path/to/downloaded/zip/archive>

... from PyPI

This is not implemented

This would mean uploading the package to the official Python Package Index (PyPI -- formerly known as the cheese shop -- documented here) ... it's not hard to do but not necessary for a learning tool like this, so I just mention it here, because that is the official way for "real" software.

If mau-mau would be uploaded to PyPI, it could be installed by simply typing:

$ pip install mau-mau