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Python Setup
Install Python
The Blender Studio Pipeline requires Python 3.11
or greater to be installed on your system.
Windows
- Navigate to https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ to download & install the latest version of Python 3.11+
- On the first page of the installer, ensure the option labelled “Add Python to PATH” is enabled
- After installation, open a command prompt/terminal window, enter
python --version
, if installation was successful the python version you installed should be printed in your command prompt/terminal window.
Mac
- Navigate to https://www.python.org/downloads/mac/ to download & install the latest version of Python 3.11+
- Run the install wizard to install python
- In the
Applications/Python 3.11
directory double-clickUpdate Shell Profile.command
- In the
Applications/Python 3.11
directory double-clickInstall Certificates.command
- After installation, open a command prompt/terminal window, enter
python --version
, if installation was successful the python version you installed should be printed in your command prompt/terminal window.
Linux
Python is pre-installed on many distributions. Here is how to explicitly install python on some common distributions.
Gentoo
bash
emerge --ask dev-lang/python:3
emerge --ask dev-lang/python:3
Ubuntu/Debian
bash
apt-get install python3
apt install python-is-python3
apt-get install python3
apt install python-is-python3
Arch Linux
bash
packman -S python
packman -S python
After installation, open a command prompt/terminal window, enter python --version
, if installation was successful the python version you installed should be printed in your command prompt/terminal window.
Install Dependencies
The Blender Studio Pipeline depends on scripts that require packages from the PIP package manager. The following is a guide to installing the required packages, on your system's python. To avoid module clutter consider setting up a virtual environment see the official Python Documentation for details.
- Ensure PIP is installed
python -m ensurepip --upgrade
- Install required 'requests' package
python -m pip install requests