iBridgePY and Anaconda on Mac OSX

AI & Machine learning
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Hello 



Any idea as to why ibridgePy and anaconda do not work together? 

I have found this: 

https://ibridgepy.com//2017/08/27/tutorial-migrating-from-quantopian-to-ibridgepy/

 

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step 2. 1 Install Anaconda
For Windows users, Anaconda is required.
* For your convenience, use this link Anaconda3-5.0.1-Windows-x86_64.exe to download Anaconda Python 3.6 for windows users.
* Use this link Anaconda2-5.0.1-Windows-x86_64.exe to download Anaconda Python 2.7 for windows users.
For Ubuntu users, do NOT install Anaconda. You need to use native Python 2.7 64-bit
For Mac users, you can choose to install Anaconda or not. You may refer to this tutorial to debug on Mac if any issues.
step 2.2 Configure TWS or IB Gateway
The detailed steps are described in this webpage.

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Here is the tutorial link:
https://ibridgepy.com//2018/09/06/debug-ibridgepy-mac/

So it appears you can make it work...
Any feedback would be useful, thank you. 

For obvious reasons I do not want to mess with with my native pyuthon installation. 

RM 
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Hello Rory,

It is because Mac OS has Python pre-built into it. Now, when you install Ananconda, there exist two versions of Python, and IBridgePy usually gets confused with which version to use.
 
Hence, they recommend using Anaconda with IBridgePy.