Update : Erik Bernhardsson has released an update to Annoy that removes the dependency of Boost and Boost.Python from Annoy. Packages such as Spotify’s Annoy for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search have direct applications in the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR)/image search engine space. And while this post isn’t entirely dedicated to computer vision, it is still very relevant if you are developing computer vision based applications using Python and OpenCV. And if you are on an OSX machine and aren’t using Homebrew, then I suggest you stop reading this post and install it right now.Īnyway, like I said, I hope that this post saves other people some time and hassle. The amount of time I have wasted over the past few months (passively) trying to get boost and boost-python to install on my OSX machine via Homebrew has been nothing short of excruciating.ĭon’t get me wrong, I love Homebrew. I really, really hope that someone finds this resource useful. pyenv global 3.x.Click here to download the source code to this post Set a specific version of Python as your local version. See which versions of Python are installed. Step 7 - Set your working version of Python If you want to list all of the available versions of Python, try: pyenv install -l | grep -ow.

Step 6 - See all available versions of Python Install another version of Python pyenv install 3.7.0 Step 5 - Install another version of Python You can activate your changes by running. echo 'eval '$(pyenv init -)'' > ~/.bash_profile You will then want to configure your environmental variables and leave PyEnv to manage your packages. Step 3 - Configure your Mac's environment Since we will be using Homebrew manager to install our Python manager, here's a quick tutorial on how to install Homebrew for Mac users. This is pretty much the same thing for Python. If you're a Ruby developer, you'll likely understand the power behind Ruby Version Manager or rbenv. Here's how to configure your Mac so that you can easily install any version of Python.

Mac comes with Python 2.7 pre-installed, but some newer AI libraries prefer you use Python 3+.

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