plico 0.13

Python Laboratory Instrumentation COntrol

# PLICO: Python Laboratory Instrumentation COntrol

This is just a framework for a typical HW controlling application

## Installation

### Installing From the wheel ` pip install plico-XXX.whl `

In plico source dir ` pip install . `

During development you want to update use

` pip install -e . ` that install a python egg with symlinks to the source directory in such a way that chages in the python code are immediately available without the need for re-installing (beware of conf/calib files!)

### Uninstall

` pip uninstall plico `

## Administration Tool

For developers.

### Testing Never commit before tests are OK! To run the unittest and integration test suite execute in plico source dir

` python setup.py test `

### Creating a Conda environment Use the Anaconda GUI or in terminal

` conda create --name plico `

To create an environment with a specific python version

` conda create --name plico26 python=2.6 `

It is better to install available packages from conda instead of pip.

` conda install --name plico matplotlib scipy ipython numpy `

### Packaging and distributing

See https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/#

To make a source distribution

` python setup.py sdist `

and the tar.gz is created in plico/dist

If it is pure Python and works on 2 and 3 you can make a universal wheel

` python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal `

Otherwise do a pure wheel

` python setup.py bdist_wheel `

The wheels are created in plico/dist. I suppose one can trash plico/build now and distribute the files in plico/dist

To upload on pip (but do you really want to make it public?)

` twine upload dist/* `