Installation

species is compatible with Python 3.6/3.7 and is available in the PyPI repository and on Github.

Installation from PyPI

species can be installed with the pip package manager:

$ pip install species

And to update to the most recent version:

$ pip install --upgrade species

Installation from Github

Installation from Github is done by cloning the repository:

$ git clone git@github.com:tomasstolker/species.git

And running the setup script to install the package and its dependencies:

$ python setup.py install

Once a local copy of the repository exists, new commits can be pulled from Github with:

$ git pull origin master

Do you want to makes changes to the code? Then please fork the species repository on the Github page and clone your own fork instead of the main repository. Contributions and pull requests are very welcome (see Contributing section).

Testing species

The installation can be tested by starting Python in interactive mode and printing the species version:

>>> import species
>>> species.__version__