Installing PZero source code with Anaconda and PyCharm

The easiest and supported way to run and develop new code for PZero is to clone this repository locally as explained here, and install a suitable Anaconda environment as explained here.

To develop PZero code, we use PyCharm. Note that educational licenses are available for free. To use PyCharm, the pzero conda environment must be set up once as explained here. Our code is automatically formatted as explained here. GitHub versioning can be managed from the standard Git command line or with the PyCharm Git menu.

Alternatively, PyPi could be used in macOS and Linux as discussed here, but this option is not supported and can result in non-standard environments.

An alternative option for the IDE is VSCode, but this option is not supported.

Once you have set up, you can start PZero from PyCharm or from the terminal with:

python pzero.py