Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

Minimal install – the quick and easy way

The OpenAI Gym is a Python package and is available in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository. You can use easy_install or pip to fetch and install packages from the PyPI repository. Pip is a package management tool for Python, which most of you might be familiar with if you have experience scripting in Python:

          (rl_gym_book) praveen@ubuntu:~$pip install gym
        

That's it!

Let's quickly check the installation actually went fine by running the following code. Create a gym_install_test.py file under the ~/rl_gym_book directory, type/copy the following code into it, and save it. You can also download the gym_quick_install_test.py file from the book's code repository:

#! /usr/bin/env python  import gym ...