Installation¶

Create conda environment¶

To create a conda environment with all the necessary dependencies we provide an environment.yml.

To create the environment please open a terminal (Anaconda Prompt on Windows) and type

(base) conda env create -f=environment.yml

This will create a conda environment picasso_addon. To activate the environment type

(base) activate picasso_addon

The picasso_addon package requires the picasso package. Clone the repository, switch to the downloaded folder and type

(picasso_addon) python setup.py install

This will install the picasso python package into the picasso_addon environment.

As a last step we will install the picasso_addon package into the picasso_addon environment. As before, we clone the repository, switch to the downloaded folder and type

(picasso_addon) python setup.py install

Done!

If you don’t want to install the picasso_addon package into your environment but you want to be able to import it in any IPython (Spyder, Jupyter) session do the following:

Navigate to ~/.ipython/profile_default
Create a folder called startup if it’s not already there
Add a new Python file called start.py or modify it and add

import sys
sys.path.append('C:/yourpath/picasso')
sys.path.append('C:/yourpath/picasso_addon')