Hi, I installed Standalone Psychopy On a Mac computer and I use VS Code as a code editor. How can I add the standalone psychopy as a python interpreter to vs code? Trying to add Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/MacOS/python did not work.

The standalone isn’t going to work for you for this purpose - you’ll need to install the PsychoPy library and its many dependencies into an environment with a regular Python interpreter. It’s best to create a separate environment just for that (eg with Conda), so that you don’t break your everyday P…

Hi, I find this a bit strange. If standalone PsychoPy is installed on my machine, with the appropriate python version and all batteries included (1.2 GB disk space), and apparently uses its own virtual environment, why can’t I tap into (activate) that virtual environment from outside, e.g., from VS…

I also don’t understand this, and thought that copying the files out would fix it, but no dice , it would be interesting to find out why because I’m having a lot of trouble overcoming the dependencies issue doing things the conventional way.

[image] jlc: I find this a bit strange. If standalone PsychoPy is installed on my machine, with the appropriate python version and all batteries included (1.2 GB disk space), and apparently uses its own virtual environment, why can’t I tap into (activate) that virtual environment from outside, e…

Notably, I’m selecting the “Enter interpreter path…” option here, as below. Are you doing something else? [image]

Back then, this is what I was trying as well but it did not work. I somehow solved this issue but I don’t remember how. I may have installed it using anaconda instead of the installer. But I remember that when I did it using anaconda the installation was getting stuck at some point as well.

Conda has certainly had issues before with some libs (like hdf5 and wxpython) and I don’t have time to battle with it. But maybe something changed about the way that the py2app packages the python executable in the bundle that means it now “just works”. I mean that’s my experience, but not working …

My feeling is that this could be due to your MacOS version. What is your MacOS version? Maybe Apple has some security precaution to prevent malicious users from running Python code from an app.

If it doesn’t work using Jon’s method, and conda gets stuck using the anaconda install method (which it did for me) you could use conda just as a virtual environment manager, create a conda environment (note that on a Mac you need python 3.8) with conda create python=3.8 -n psychopy activate the e…

Using psychopy standalone on mac with visual studio code

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AlexHolcombe March 15, 2024, 6:05am 12

That possibility now seems to have been ruled out by my attempts documented here: Installing Psychopy to run with an external editor - #4 by AlexHolcombe

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