Install Python with NumPy SciPy Matplotlib on macOS Big Sur Apple Silicon M1

How to install Python with NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib on macOS Big Sur Apple Silicon M1.
The procedure presented in the video should work on both Apple Silicon M1 (arm64) and Intel (x86-64) Macs.

[@mehboobalam3167]

You are just a life saver for me. Just now I received my M1 Mac. I was trying to set my working environment and nothing was working. Reading things on various blogs, forum...but nothing and then I find your video. Its awesome. Thanks a lot. You saved my several hours. God bless you.

[@mcb7376]

Thank you so much!!! Three hours of google producing creepy geek recipes that failed one after the other. Your simple tutorial was my rescue from this nightmare!

[@k1arah748]

OMG! This is the best instructional video for installing python the right way. I appreciate you've made it concise and very understandable even if I don't have background in programming I was able to follow everything. Thank you

[@ixxhar]

I had to log in to my account to say thanks for showing a quick workaround to these library incompatibility issues. I had to search around for a while but the solutions were mainly compiling those libraries and installing them yourself, which is a lot of work, for me at least. Nonetheless, thank you for the video.

[@mitheleshkumar5034]

Thanks a lot. Initially it didn't work. But i uninstalled my arm64 version of homebrew . installed homebrew in x86_64. then followed your steps. Now all set. Thanks again

[@brijeshranu1]

please tell how uninstalled my arm64 version of homebrew

[@aydinonac5247]

The video on installing pip, numpy and matplotlib was excellent. Thank you VERY much. Aydin

[@thomasjirsch6572]

3 Days of google solved by a simple explanation, thank you!

[@empowercode]

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[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

Thanks and best wishes for your KZbin Journey.

[@empowercode]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials No problem, thank you!

[@user-xf9oc5bl3v]

How can I use numpy in Python IDLE/in a new Python File? If I try to „import numpy“ I get an error. What can I do?

[@siddharthachaganti5639]

Love you dude. I am trying to do this since i bought my lap. u did it very simply thank you so much

[@jakobj55]

Hi, since I installed sympy on my mac an algorithm I wrote for checking primes doesnt work anymore. Do you know how to uninstall sympy? I am a complete noob btw Thx

[@ethansrn2264]

Thanks it works fine in the terminal but not at all in Idle, how can I do ?

[@rahulshah3204]

Hello Sir! Excellent video and really helped me get started. However, can you help me setting this up with Atom text editor? As of now I can use these 3 libraries since the terminal isn't closed. What steps should I follow so that even if I close the terminal, I don't have to worry about the virtual environment?

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

Hello. I don't know about Atom, but in Visual Studio Code it is quite simple to use an existing virtual environment (no need to keep the Terminal open). Check this video I recorded some time ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/jabYmpqXZdx-mrM .

[@rahulshah3204]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials thank you for your reply. I actually checked out on another video on KZbin and can now use VE for atom.

[@johnlocke8389]

What I experienced is that the Rosetta option is buried a bit deeper. You must right-click on the Terminal app, choose GET INFO, then select the box which says "Open using Rosetta." Just for clarity...

[@therajvjain]

Simple and Correct. Worked like a charm

[@wald01979]

IMO, pipenv provides slightly better results then native venv. Also, macports or homebrew install may be a better dependency management solution for python kernels.

[@victorcabritagomez4037]

hey! I got this error while importing matplotlib "dlopen(/Users/victor/TIC/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.cpython-39-darwin.so, 2): no suitable image found.". Does someone know how to fix this?

[@lzdps]

Thank you! How to configure this "'arch -x86_64 zsh" using PyCharm?

[@margitkonigsson693]

Get this error when using command "pip install scipy" : ERROR: Failed building wheel for scipy

[@niranjanprasad9266]

will it work on vs code ??

[@avaamidei8635]

I get an error "invalid syntax" when I am typing in the "-m venv work" . It says invalid syntax.

[@nnasiri6516]

This is great! Do you have a similar tutorial for Tensorflow?

[@comhendrik1552]

Very good video. But can someone tell me how to use the modules with vscode. because I want to create a file, which I can save.

[@ПётрПетрович-х6ш]

You helped a lot, thank you very much!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@doer6002]

Please, how can I install anaconda, and jupyter notebook on Macbook M1, and install NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib. Thank you for the above video.

[@imaginaut]

Hi, how can I select this environment so I can use it with IDLE?

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

Open Terminal, switch to x86_64, activate the environment than write: python -m idlelib.idle The above should open an IDLE shell window that knows about the active environment (what libraries you've installed). You can create new files from the File menu and use Run to run the code ...

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

@AFIQAH IZZATI BINTI SUNDUSIN / UPM Hi, I don't understand the problem, what do you mean with "I cannot import file in my coding" ?

[@bugzdesilva8216]

how to download module named 'pyrsgis in macos please tell me

[@johnlocke8389]

"press the top key". What is the "top" key?

[@bugzdesilva8216]

omg you saved my life thank you so much !!!

[@siddharthachaganti5639]

mine too

[@Fiop22]

arch: posix_spawnp: zsh: Bad CPU type in executable Setting iTerm to Rosetta doesn't work either

[@tobias1311]

Hello, if I install this can I use it con Vs Code directly or do I have to write code like you did?

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

You can use your preferred editor (VS Code, PyCharm ...) just be sure to select the environment in which you've installed NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib.

[@tobias1311]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials To select the environment do I have to do it in my vscode Terminal?

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

Bottom bar (left) of VS Code you can click on "Python ..." or "Select a Python interpreter" and than you can select what environment you need/wish.

[@tobias1311]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials thank you

[@xxma1npr1est]

Hello sir, for running & debugging cpp files we have to set mingw path in environment variables on windows 10 ? Please help me

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

It depends, some MinGW installation come with a command prompt shortcut that sets up the path temporarily for you as long as you keep the window open. Personally if I'd want to use MinGW for C++ development on Windows I would install MSYS 2.

[@xxma1npr1est]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials thanks for replying, I have installed clang(& clang++) & gdb debugger through MSYS2 but it doesn't working in my vscode on windows 10 machine. Many settings has been changed . Please can you make a new video on how to install clang on windows 10 & setting up the vscode for debugging.( I have also visited your GitHub page but didn't get any help)

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

@@xxma1npr1est I'll try to find some time this week to check what has changed for Clang under MSYS 2 (Clang was always pretty buggy with MinGW and MSYS 2). In the meantime you can use GCC (g++) under MSYS 2 for C++ programming.

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

I wrote a text post about the new procedure of using Clang from MSYS2, eventually I will record a video, in the meantime you can check this url solarianprogrammer.com/2021/06/11/install-clang-windows-msys2-mingw-w64/

[@xxma1npr1est]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials thank you so much sir 🙏🙏, This means a lot .God bless you

[@pratikpatil5261]

Can u please tell me how to set work environment in visual studio... I don't know which path to use and which interpreter to set

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

I assume you are talking about Visual Studio Code. First make sure you can use the "code" command from your Terminal, see code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac . From a new Terminal switched to x86_64 like I did in the video (command: "arch -x86_64 zsh". Navigate to the folder in which your Python file(s) are using the "cd" command. Once in the proper folder write: code . Select a Python file from the left panel. On the bottom left of VS Code you should see something like "Python 3.9.3" or similar, click on this and from the drop down list select the environment in which NumPy was installed, if you followed my video it should be something like "~/work/bin/python", you may need to scroll down to see it. (Be careful that if you if you didn't correctly setup the Terminal, switched to x86_64) you will not see the environment.) Try something simple first like: import numpy print(numpy.__version__) and use the run button (upper green triangle) to run the script. Let me know if it worked for you. Unfortunately this is more complicated than it will be on an Intel based Mac.

[@pratikpatil5261]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials yaa i did the same but while selecting interpreter i am not getting which file to select from work/bin

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

Try something else in a terminal (switch to x86_64 mode and activate the work environment): arch -x86_64 zsh source ~/work/bin/activate then navigate to the folder in which you have the Python code and write: code . Try again to select the interpreter.

[@MrMrRioes]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials Your first description worked for me - thank you so much!

[@sibasankar989]

still not working for me. I have python 3.8.2, when I enter the command python3.8 -m vent work it shows command not found

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

you have a spelling error it is "venv" and not "vent".

[@sibasankar989]

Sorry, yes i hv used venv only. I am able to run it following by source. But when i try to install nympy, there are so mny errors Like environment, compiler error

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

@@sibasankar989 You are not supposed to build NumPy. Have you switched to x86_64 like I did in the video ? If nothing works, check this article solarianprogrammer.com/2021/06/15/install-python-numpy-scipy-matplotlib-macos-apple-silicon-arm64/

[@sibasankar989]

Thanks a lot.

[@justedms53]

seems to work then not work. if i close the terminal and restart python3, it seems it doesn't even recognize SCIPY

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

That's because your Terminal forgets what architecture to use and defaults to arm64. So, you need to reenable the x64-86 architecture and activate the environment in which you've installed NumPy and SciPy.

[@akellaniranjan226]

hey I got the following error when trying to install bumpy can you please help me resolve it Could not build wheels for bumpy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

If you are on M1, you need to make sure that you switched the Terminal to use x86-64 instructions like I do in the video and that you've updated pip, otherwise you will get the PEP 517 error.

[@akellaniranjan226]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials yes I have switched the terminal to x86 and also upgraded the pip but still I am getting the same issue

[@akellaniranjan226]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials will I succeed if I use anaconda ??

[@akellaniranjan226]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials the output also shows me that “Failed building wheel for numpy ”

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

Do you have the Command Line Tools installed ? Have you installed Python 3.9 like I do in the video ?

[@alex___dhl]

but how do you get the idle ?

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

Once the environment is activated, write: python -m idlelib.idle

[@mohsenrahimi1460]

Thank you so much, it's great.

[@mahadihasan1730]

thanks a lots bro!!

[@rajatdevsharma8767]

Many Thanks !

[@saeedsobhani2088]

thanks a lot

[@urospocek4668]

Yes this process will successfully install mentioned libraries, but you won't be able to use them and you will get "wrong architecture exception". DOES NOT WORK!

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

Actually it works, you are probably missing a step, like forgetting to switch the Terminal arch to x86-64.

[@urospocek4668]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials No, I have done everything you said in the video. Switched to x86-64 and successfully installed scikit-learn. Then in Pycharm everything was looking ok, but we I tried to run my program that uses scikit learn I got an error "wrong architecture". I will really like it to work and if you can help me and tell me what am I doing wrong I wiil be very grateful and I will delete my negative comment.

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

@@urospocek4668 Check first if you can use scikit-learn from the Terminal after you switch the arch and activate the environment. I suspect PyCharm somehow tries to use the installed scikit x86-64 lib with the arm64 version of Python (I had a similar problem in VS Code).

[@urospocek4668]

@@AtoZProgrammingTutorials I tried but I got and error even from the terminal. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 22, in from . import multiarray File "/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/multiarray.py", line 12, in from . import overrides File "/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/overrides.py", line 7, in from numpy.core._multiarray_umath import ( ImportError: dlopen(/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/_multiarray_umath.cpython-38-darwin.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find: /Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/_multiarray_umath.cpython-38-darwin.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture /Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/_multiarray_umath.cpython-38-darwin.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sklearn/__init__.py", line 82, in from .base import clone File "/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sklearn/base.py", line 13, in import numpy as np File "/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 150, in from . import core File "/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 48, in raise ImportError(msg) ImportError: IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THIS FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE! Importing the numpy C-extensions failed. This error can happen for many reasons, often due to issues with your setup or how NumPy was installed. We have compiled some common reasons and troubleshooting tips at: numpy.org/devdocs/user/troubleshooting-importerror.html Please note and check the following: * The Python version is: Python3.8 from "/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/bin/python" * The NumPy version is: "1.21.1" and make sure that they are the versions you expect. Please carefully study the documentation linked above for further help. Original error was: dlopen(/Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/_multiarray_umath.cpython-38-darwin.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find: /Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/_multiarray_umath.cpython-38-darwin.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture /Users/urospocek/PycharmProjects/ML/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/_multiarray_umath.cpython-38-darwin.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture >>> I gess because I was able to install arm version of numpy and with your video x86 version of scikit-learn they are incompatible (I really don't want to change version or architecture of numpy). But as you see from error message a got "but wrong architecture" exception by using your method, try it for yourself just use ordinary way (with arm terminal) to install numpay, pandas and any other library because they are now optimised for M1 and your way only for scikit-learn. If you succeed just let me know how. And a big thank you for your effort.

[@AtoZProgrammingTutorials]

@@urospocek4668 Normally, if you use a separate environment you should not mess with your previously installed versions. This is the entire point of using a separate environment. There may be a way for you to install everything using arm64 (I know it works for NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib, but I didn't tried for scikit-learn). See this article solarianprogrammer.com/2021/06/15/install-python-numpy-scipy-matplotlib-macos-apple-silicon-arm64/ You will need to use "conda install scikit-learn" as an extra command versus what is presented in the article. Always try to use a separate environment when you install new libraries. This way if something goes wrong you can always delete the environment and try again or use a different solution. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty disappointed about the compatibility problems with arm64/M1 processor from Apple. When I bought it I was hoping most problems will be solved in half a year ...

[@lorenzotecchia]

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