Install Chacolatey
Launch a powershell prompt using "Run As Admin" and set execution policy to unrestricted.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
And run the following command in the same window to install chacolatey
iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
Once its installed, you'll have csint added to your path and it is the equivalent of apt-get.
Install Python
If you don't already have Python installed, run the following in a powershell/cmd
cinst Python
This will install Python 2.7 at C:\Python27. We need a few more things to setup a proper dev environment. Instead of installing flask package directly to the main Python installation, it can be separated using virtualenv. If you are developing an app on django and another using flask and would like to keep these environments separate, virtualenv is the way to go.
Install Pip
cinst pip
pip install virtualenvwrapper pip install virtualenvwrapper-powershell
This will add virtualenv.exe to your system path and you can create multiple Python dev environments using this. Lets call our flask app FlaskApp. Lets create a directory for this app on D drive. Create a virtual env in that folder.
virtualenv FlaskApp
This will create a Python instance in FlaskApp folder. Now activate the virtual environment we just created. cd to FlaskApp/Scripts and run activate
cd FlaskApp\Scripts\ activate #your command line should change to (FlaskApp) D:\FlaskApp\Scripts. pip install flask # To come out of (FlaskApp), simply type 'deactivate'
Now you are all set. We created a virtual environment called FlaskApp and installed flask package. Lets see if it works. Create a sample app. Create a hello.py with below
#!C:\flaskapp\Scripts
-- the above line is to let the computer run python.exe from our VirtualEnv not the system wide Python
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def hello_world():
return 'Hello World!'
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run()
Run
Python hello.py
It should run the web server on 127.0.0.1:5000.
