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__