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Python Setup

Install Python

The Blender Studio Pipeline requires Python 3.11 or greater to be installed on your system.

Windows

  1. Navigate to https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ to download & install the latest version of Python 3.11+
  2. On the first page of the installer, ensure the option labelled “Add Python to PATH” is enabled
  3. After installation, open a command prompt/terminal window, enter python --version, if installation was successful the python version you installed should be printed in your command prompt/terminal window.

Mac

  1. Navigate to https://www.python.org/downloads/mac/ to download & install the latest version of Python 3.11+
  2. Run the install wizard to install python
  3. In the Applications/Python 3.11 directory double-click Update Shell Profile.command
  4. In the Applications/Python 3.11 directory double-click Install Certificates.command
  5. After installation, open a command prompt/terminal window, enter python --version, if installation was successful the python version you installed should be printed in your command prompt/terminal window.

Linux

Python is pre-installed on many distributions. Here is how to explicitly install python on some common distributions.

Gentoo

emerge --ask dev-lang/python:3

Ubuntu/Debian

apt-get install python3
apt install python-is-python3

Arch Linux

packman -S python

After installation, open a command prompt/terminal window, enter python --version, if installation was successful the python version you installed should be printed in your command prompt/terminal window.

Install Dependencies

The Blender Studio Pipeline depends on scripts that require packages from the PIP package manager. The following is a guide to installing the required packages, on your system's python. To avoid module clutter consider setting up a virtual environment see the official Python Documentation for details.

  1. Ensure PIP is installed python -m ensurepip --upgrade
  2. Install required 'requests' package python -m pip install requests