sharppy / SHARPpy

Sounding/Hodograph Analysis and Research Program in Python
https://sharppy.github.io/SHARPpy/index.html
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Documentation suggestion for windows users #208

Open tjturnage opened 3 years ago

tjturnage commented 3 years ago

Hello, I suggest that you instruct Windows users to ensure that, if one already exists, they delete their .sharppy folder in their user profile prior to installing/running this latest version (perhaps this only matters for this version that made the jump from Py2 to Py3?).

I kept getting errors about None being returned from data sources and I suspect this was due to obsolete files in the datasources sub-folder. Once I deleted the offending .sharppy folder (including that subfolder), all was good.

Thank you for updating to Py3! I use Windows out of necessity instead of preference and it was impossible to run Python 2 and 3 at the same time. Your conda install directions worked great too BTW.

Best, TJ

tjturnage commented 3 years ago

Related to this, it wasn't obvious to me how to run 'setup.py install' in Windows because there are many setup.py files within the conda env directory - and Windows apparently wants me to explicitly call the correct one for doing the rebuild (I know from experience that it's much easier to run setup.py in linux because there it's easier to compartmentalize environments).

I realize that this issue, being apparently Windows-related, likely goes beyond the scope of this particular project. However, if you have any suggestions on how to make setup.py work in Windows, I would appreciate it - as would many others who, like me, are stuck with using WIndows OS for telework.

Thanks again, TJ