Installing build dependencies

Setting up Python virtual environment

A good practice is to create a separate Python virtual environment for each project. If you don’t have virtualenv yet, install and activate it using:

curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
python virtualenv.py <name_of_the_venv>
. <name_of_the_venv>/bin/activate

Installing Cython

Use pip (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip) to install Cython:

pip install Cython

Installing numpy

Use pip to install numpy:

pip install numpy

Numpy can also be obtained via scientific python distributions such as:

• Anaconda

• Enthought Canopy

• Python(x,y)

Note

You can find binaries for 64-bit Windows on http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/.

Installing Sphinx

Sphinx is a documentation tool that converts reStructuredText files into nicely looking html documentation. Install it with:

pip install Sphinx

numpydoc is used to format the API docmentation appropriately. Install it via:

pip install numpydoc