AChemKit 0.1.0

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Description
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PyAChemKit is a Python implementation of an Artificial Chemistry Kit - a library and collection of tools.

Artificial Chemsistry (AChem) is a spin-off topic of Artificial Life. AChem is aimed at emergence of life from
non-living environment - primordial soup etc.


Installation
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To install on Unix/Linux, run ::

sudo python setup.py install

This package should work on windows, but is untested.

This package requires the following:

* Python >= 2.6 http://www.python.org/

Optionally, the following can be installed to improve performance:

* Psyco http://psyco.sourceforge.net
* PyPy http://codespeak.net/pypy

Source
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Source code is available from https://github.com/afaulconbridge/PyAChemKit

The source code additionally requires the following:

* Sphinx >= 1.0 http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
* Graphviz http://www.graphviz.org/
* Make http://www.gnu.org/software/make/
* LaTeX http://www.latex-project.org/
* PyLint >=0.13.0 http://www.logilab.org/project/pylint/
* Coverage http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/


For a debian-based linux distrbution, these can be installed with::

sudo apt-get install python graphviz texlive
sudo easy_install Sphinx #only v0.6 in apt
sudo easy_install pygments #required by sphinx


There is a makefile that will run some useful tasks for you (generate documentation, test, benchmark). This can be accessed by running the following command::

make help

Copyright
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This project is licensed under a modified-BSD license. See COPYRIGHT file for details.