Warning

This project is being split into 3 separate projects:

• friendly_traceback,

• friendly, and

• friendly_idle.

The documentation does not reflect this change.

If you are a end-user, just install friendly until further notice.

Installation

Hint

If you use Mu, you should ignore this page as some Mu-specific instructions are provided later.

Installation

You can install friendly from PyPI in the usual way:

python -m pip install friendly

This needs to be done from a terminal. In the command shown above, python refers to whatever you need to type to invoke your favourite Python interpreter. It could be python, python3, py -3.8, etc.

Instead of python -m pip install ..., some tutorials might suggest to simply write pip install ...; I do not recommend this as it might not install programs in the right “environment” for your computer.

Mistake to avoid

A mistake often made by beginners is to try to use pip from within Python.

The error message is not very helpful. This is what it might look if you had already been using friendly.