Hi Guys,
Chris here. I’ve looked at some youtube videos suggesting Thonny is a good IDE for beginners like myself.
I tried installing Thonny directly from their website - but if I go to Tools > Options - there is no Alternative Python source in that list, so I tried running it from terminal to install it from the forge repo, that didn’t work, it couldn’t find some files or what not:
Solving environment: failed
PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:
- thonny
Current channels:
- https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge
- defaults
- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main
- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r
- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2
To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you're
looking for, navigate to
https://anaconda.org
and use the search bar at the top of the page```
I'm also not finding Thonny on the anaconda cloud anywhere.
What should I do?
I am very new to python, coming from a total non-programming background, I am trying to teach myself and thought Thonny looked great.
Ultimately, my specific use case at the moment is to list all files and folders on a shared google drive account using python as I did try doing it on apps script, but that wasn't working very well - execution time out, then I tried triggers and just ran into constant problems, so I am wanting to learn python anyway, as I recently started at a small company as their data analyst.
Any advice would be helpful, I'm okay using google sheets and all that, but SQL and python is still new to me.