Python integration on Mac OS

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Hello everyone ,
I’m wondering how is possible to run python wrapper for mt5 on Mac as guidance show .exe .

First I thought about recommended option to simply utilise parallel but I would  need to buy Pro to utilise 12 core and 30 gpu core on M2 Max .
Other option I thought to get wine with necessary libraries but not sure if this would be possible to have python running in terminal and wine not crashing .

And final can I just locate .app in application and use Intel version with Rosetta ? 

Thanks for any advice .
 
Pavloper: I’m wondering how is possible to run python wrapper for mt5 on Mac as guidance show .exe . First I thought about recommended option to simply utilise parallel but I would  need to buy Pro to utilise 12 core and 30 gpu core on M2 Max . Other option I thought to get wine with necessary libraries but not sure if this would be possible to have python running in terminal and wine not crashing . And final can I just locate .app in application and use Intel version with Rosetta ? 

I have zero experience with Mac, but as far as I understand it, to use the Python API on a Mac, you will probably have to use a Windows version of Python running in the same virtualised environment as MetaTrader 5.

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MT5 Python integration on Mac M1 (ARM)

Fernando Carreiro, 2022.09.06 13:00

You will probably have to run a "Windows" python setup on Wine as well. I don't think it will be able to "talk" to the the macOS setup of Python.

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Dear MetaQuotes can you build a python SDK for arm archtecture?

Fernando Carreiro, 2023.02.04 16:02

MetaTrader 5 is a Windows application, and is therefore aimed at Intel based CPU's. It's use on a Mac is via virtualisation/emulation of the Windows and Intel environment. So, making a ARM based SDK does not make sense.

EDIT: To use Python with MetaTrader 5 on a Mac, you have to use the Windows version of Python, also running on "parallels" .

 
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Thank you , for moving to correct section .

I'm not having a much experience with this forum . 

I tried "

pip3 install MetaTrader5

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement MetaTrader5 (from versions: none)

ERROR: No matching distribution found for MetaTrader5

I have checked it here https://pypi.org/project/MetaTrader5/#files only windows x86-64 version :-( 

 

As far as I have seen from other user's posts, I don't think it will work with "Rosetta" or "CrossOver", only with "Wine" or "Parallels".

Also, you will have to use Python v3.13 (for Windows) at most and no higher.

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