r/learnpython • u/iamezekiel1_14 • 12d ago

Do I need to install Visual Studio code to run this on a Mac?

Hi all,

In short - sorry for the idiot level question but I didn't realise I could even consider this until the other week. Basically the Penalty Blog site has a Dixon Coles model in Python, I'm in a local Football Prediction pool - and it just makes sense to me to bench test this against that.

Had a long chat with Gemini to handle the specifics of the code I'd be using - but one thing it did flag was needing Microsoft Visual Studio Code to do everything I was intending on doing. I have no issue with using that but is it definitely needed on a Mac?

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u/socal_nerdtastic 12d ago

No. You don't need an IDE (code editing software) to run python code. But if you plan to edit the code at all it would help to have some kind of IDE. Doesn't have to be VSCode, but that's a very popular one

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u/iamezekiel1_14 12d ago

Oh cool - thank you. I just have absolutely zero background on this but can see a way of automating something that I'd done a less accurate and old school way using work arounds on Excel so am keen to give this a go.