Environment Setup

BitBar Appium Python samples use Python version 2.7.x and will not work with Python 3. To learn what version is currently installed, run the below command:

$ python --version</pre>

If Python is not installed, it can be installed by using the following commands:

# on Linux
$ sudo apt-get install python2.7

# on Mac OS X
$ brew install python

Brew is a handy package manager tool similar to apt-get. More information is available on the Brew website for its one-liner installation.

For easier Python package management, pip should also be installed. Use the following command:

$ pip --version

If pip is appropriately installed, it should print something like this:

pip 1.5.6 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (Python 2.7)

If not, pip can be installed as follows:

# on Linux
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
# on Mac
$ sudo easy_install pip

With pip installed, let’s install the Selenium module needed by Appium tests.

$ pip install selenium

And finally, verify that Selenium got installed:

$ pip list | grep selenium

Ensure the latest Python version 2 (2.7.x or newer) is installed. Go to the command line and use the following:

> python --version

Then, check whether Python’s pip module is already installed:

> pip --version

Install pip, if you have not already done so. We assume here that you have cURL installed. If not, check out the cURL Instruction and Installation.

curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py > get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
del get-pip.py

Now that Python and pip are available, let’s install Python’s Selenium module:

$ pip install selenium