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Yann
Yann

Reputation: 11

How to Install ibPy on Mac OS

I am quite a rooky in Python but i aim to build trading algos using Python and interactive broker. I have downloaded ibPy on my Mac. I now have a folder in my "download" directory that I do not know what to do with : - should I drag it somewhere ? Where ? - how to actually set up ibPy on my computer.

Please feel free to be as specific as possible since I really do not get how that works. I have been using pip3 randonly (with random success previously) but it does not work here.

thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1454

Answers (2)

JPA
JPA

Reputation: 79

Just an update on this. If you want to load IbPy on a Mac OS you have to load the IbPy2 package

$ pip install IbPy2

or

$ pip3 install IbPy2

depending on your python version.

See more info:

https://github.com/blampe/IbPy

Upvotes: 1

dreyescat
dreyescat

Reputation: 13818

I don't know the IbPy package but if you want to install it using the pip install manager you just need to execute:

$ pip install IbPy

This command will install the latest version of this package in the Python Package Index.

If you want to use the downloaded one it will be probably packaged with distutils. Then you'll have to install it with:

$ python setup.py install

If the file you downloaded is compressed in a file.tar.gz you will have to uncompress first:

$ tar xzf file.tar.gz
$ cd file
$ python setup.py install

Replace file with the name of your downloaded file.

Upvotes: 1

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