[Mne_analysis] visualizations and python versions

Mainak Jas mainakjas at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 09:41:39 EDT 2014
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Hi Tero,

Currently mayavi does not work in python 3 as far as I know. You can use
virtual environments to get the best of both worlds :)

Have a look here if you are using Anaconda:
http://conda.pydata.org/docs/examples/create.html

Best,
Mainak

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Tero Hakala <tero.hakala at aalto.fi> wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently started using MNE-python but I am a bit confused with python
> version issues.
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> I understood that most development is done in python 3 and that's the
> way of the future, so I got the latest versions and went through great
> pain to get python 3, ipython, qt etc, working on our lab's stone age
> centos distribution. However, I was greatly disappointed to learn that
> now I can not make any nice visualizations, and most of the examples in
> the cookbook are not working either because they depend on pysurfer
> which depends on mayavi which depends on vtk which is not being ported
> for python 3... (or something like that)
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> So, which python should i use with MNE ?  Should I just downgrade and
> try to get python 2.7 things working? Or if I use python 3, how should I
> deal with visualizations?
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>   best regard,
>      -Tero
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