Installation

The pyanabrid suite is a collection of several python namespace packages. For most end-users, installing the pyanabrid meta package will install all necessary packages. Additional functionality can be installed by specifying extra package options, e.g. pyanabrid[all], but should be rarely necessary.

To install pyanabrid use pip:

pip install pyanabrid

Using a virtual environment

It is generally a good idea to install python packages inside a virtual environment, where they are isolated from system-wide installations and easier to manage. You can use a tool like virtualenvwrapper to help you or use the following built-in commands.

First, create a project folder in which we will work from now on.

mkdir project_folder
cd project_folder

Then initialize a virtual environment in a sub-folder called venv (which will be created for you). You can adapt the name, but will have to change later commands as necessary.

python -m venv venv

You can now activate the virtualenv, which will change your shell’s environment variables such that the python binary and packages from the virtual environment are used.

source /venv/bin/activate
which python
# should print [...]/venv/bin/python

Alternatively, you can specify the path the to virtual env binaries directly.

./venv/bin/python --version
./venv/bin/pip --version

Once the virtual environment is activated, you can use python and pip commands transparently.

pip install pyanabrid

Next Steps

After successfully installing the pyanabrid package, these are some possible next steps:

Quickstart

Follow some quickstart examples to get going.