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Installing pysmo

Prerequisites

Pysmo depends on a small number of third-party packages (e.g. NumPy, SciPy) and makes use of modern Python language features. Python is free and open-source software, so there is no good reason not to run the latest stable release — and every reason to do so. Pysmo is tested against the latest three stable Python releases on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Virtual environments

It is good practice to install pysmo into a virtual environment rather than the system Python. Virtual environments are self-contained and do not require administrator privileges, making them well-suited to installing the latest Python and keeping project dependencies isolated.

Installing

Pysmo is available from the Python Package Index and can be installed with pip:

$ python3 -m pip install pysmo

$ python3 -m pip install pysmo --pre

$ python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/pysmo/pysmo

Tip

The stable release can be installed alongside the development version. See the development documentation for instructions.

Upgrading

Upgrades to pysmo are also performed with the pip command:

python3 -m pip install -U pysmo

Uninstalling

To remove pysmo from the system run:

python3 -m pip uninstall pysmo

Note

pip does not remove dependencies that were automatically installed. Run pip list to see what is installed, then remove any unwanted packages with pip uninstall.