Anaconda and BornAgain setup

If you do not already have a working Python 2.7 environment, download and install Anaconda at https://www.continuum.io/downloads. Be sure to get Python 2.7 version. You will need numpy and matplotlib. We recommend that you install ipython and jupyter notebook.
Download and install BornAgain http://www.bornagainproject.org/download.
Download and install PyCharm https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download.
If having trouble getting PyCharm to find the bornagain module, edit the PYTHONPATH via Run -> Edit configurations.

Check that python is working from command line:

python -c "print('hello, world!')

or in a jupyter notebook:



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print('hello, world!')









    



hello, world!

Check that the bornagain python module is correctly installed:



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from __future__ import print_function #needed for python2/python3 compatibility

try:
    import bornagain as ba
    print("successfully loaded bornagain module")
    major, minor = ba.major_version_number, ba.minor_version_number
    print("BornAgain version number is {0}.{1}".format(major, minor))
except:
    print("could not import bornagain module!")









    



successfully loaded bornagain module
BornAgain version number is 1.6

You should do this for all environments in which you plan to use BornAgain, e.g. jupyter notebook, PyCharm, command line.



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