text: Our quickstarts are designed to get you working with Twilio in record time. To make things more efficient, we have used the same Python ingredients time and time again so you only need to go through environmental setup one time.
  To complete the Twilio Python quickstarts, you'll need to have the following tools installed:
  If you are on a Mac or Linux machine, you probably already have Python installed. Windows users can follow this excellent tutorial. There are more advanced configuration instructions at the official Python website.
  Flask is a super simple web server written in
  Python. We're going to use it for this tutorial. To install it, we are going to
  install two tools:
  pip and
  virtualenv.
  Third party Python libraries, such as the math library
  numpy or the MySQL
  connector library
  MySQL-python, are hosted in packages, which are
  installed by a package manager. The package manager that comes with
  Python is called
  easy_install. However, most Python developers prefer to use
  a package manager called
  pip (why?).
  pip is a package manager that you can use to install new Python
  libraries with one command.
  virtualenv is a tool that lets you
  create a special sandbox for your Python packages, to ensure that you have
  exactly the right version of every tool you need. Furthermore,
  virtualenv
  makes sure that you don't accidentally break your app if someone updates your
  Python packages.
  pip
  The good news is that
  pip comes installed with
  virtualenv. We need to make
  sure though that we install
  pip and
  virtualenv for the correct version of
  Python on your computer. Open a terminal and run the following command:
  python --version
  It should say something like the following:
  python --version Python 2.6.1
  Find the instructions below to install
  virtualenv for the version of Python
  reported by your terminal.
  Run the following command:
  easy_install virtualenv
  If your Python version reported above is 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7, run
  easy_install
  with your Python version number, like this:
  easy_install-2.7 virtualenv
  Replace the version number 2.7 above with 2.5 or 2.6 if you have that version installed.
  You can install virtualenv using
  pip, which is included in Python 3.4+ installations:
  # If you get 'permission denied' errors, try running "sudo python" instead of "python" pip install virtualenv
  If you get the following error:
  -bash: easy_install-2.5: command not found
  you may need to ensure that Python is installed, or add the folder containing
  the
  easy_install program to your
  $PATH.
  If you get an error that looks like this:
  Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin error: /usr/local/bin/pip: Permission denied
  Then you need to run the install script as the admin user, like this:
  sudo easy_install-2.6 virtualenv
  Once you have
  virtualenv installed, switch to the directory you'll use for
  your tutorial, and create a virtual environment:
  cd Documents/my_tutorial_folder virtualenv --no-site-packages .
  Now activate the virtual environment.
  source bin/activate
  You can tell your virtualenv is running, because your terminal will have the name of the enclosing folder listed above it:
  (quickstart)USER:~ user$
  Now we're going to install Flask and the twilio-python library. Open a file
  called
  requirements.txt and add the following lines to it:
  Flask>=0.12 twilio~=6.0.0
  Then install these packages with
  pip, in your terminal:
  bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
  First, make sure your virtualenv is up:
  cd Documents/my_tutorial_folder source bin/activate # On Windows, use .\bin\activate.bat
  Then open a file called
  run.py and add these lines:
  from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/") def hello(): return "Hello World!" if __name__ == "__main__": app.run(debug=True)
  Now try running it. In your terminal, type:
  python run.py * Running on
  Navigate to in your browser. You should see a Hello World message.
  Congrats, you now have everything you need to start using Twilio and Python! Let's start coding.
  We all do sometimes; code is hard. Get help now from our support team, or lean on the wisdom of the crowd browsing the Twilio tag on Stack Overflow.