Using Python on CLA Linux Compute Servers

To use Python on the CLA Linux compute servers, you will first need to load the associated module. There are a few different Python distributions available for you to choose from.

Distribution Module name Default IDE

Anaconda Python

python/conda/$version

spyder

Enthought Canopy

python/canopy/$version

canopy

Intel Python

intel/python-$version

None

To see what versions of the various distributions are available, look for the module names from the above table in the output of the 'module avail' command:

module avail

To use Python, just decide which distribution and version you would like to use and load the module. In this example, we will be using python/conda/3.6.

module load python/conda/3.6

From there, you can:

  • use python interactively 
ipython
  • run your script from the command line
python myscript.py
  • launch the associated IDE (except for intel/python which doesn't come with a default IDE)
spyder