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Installation instructions
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The latest stable release of NIXPy is available on PyPi as `nixio`_.
NIXPy works with Python versions 3.6+ on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Support for python 2 has been dropped with the official end of life for python 2.
The simplest way to install NIXPy is to use pip
.. code-block:: shell
pip3 install nixio
Install developer version
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The latest unstable (beta) version of `NIXPy`_ at any given time is also on PyPi and can be installed with pip
.. code-block:: shell
pip3 install nixio --pre
*Note that this version may contain untested code and should be used for testing new features in the format.*
Build NIXPy from Source
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You can also build NIXPy from source, if you want to test changes that are newer than the latest beta release or want to modify the source.
The source code is available on `GitHub`_ and can be built as follows
.. code-block:: bash
git clone https://github.com/G-Node/nixpy
python setup.py install
Alternatively, to install in one step using pip
.. code-block:: bash
pip install git+https://github.com/G-Node/nixpy
Dependencies
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NIXPy depends on `h5py`_, the Python interface to the HDF5 data format, and `numpy`_.
Dependencies:
- h5py: https://pypi.org/project/h5py/
- numpy: https://pypi.org/project/numpy/
.. LINKS
.. _nixio: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nixio/
.. _Github: https://github.com/G-Node/nixpy/tree/no-bindings-dev
.. _h5py: http://www.h5py.org/
.. _numpy: https://www.numpy.org
.. _NIXPy: https://github.com/G-Node/nixpy
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