Installation¶

Dependencies¶

Note

See Reference test platforms section for more information about supported platforms, Python versions and Qt bindings.

The PlotPy package requires the following Python modules:

Name	Version	Summary
Python	>=3.9, <4	Python programming language
guidata	>= 3.14.1	Automatic GUI generation for easy dataset editing and display
PythonQwt	>= 0.16	Qt plotting widgets for Python
numpy	>= 1.22	Fundamental package for array computing in Python
SciPy	>= 1.7.3	Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
scikit-image	>= 0.19	Image processing in Python
Pillow		Python Imaging Library (fork)
tifffile		Read and write TIFF files

Optional modules for GUI support (Qt):

Name	Version	Summary
PyQt5	>5.15.5	Python bindings for the Qt cross platform application toolkit

Optional modules for development:

Name	Version	Summary
build		A simple, correct Python build frontend
babel		Internationalization utilities
Coverage		Code coverage measurement for Python
Cython	>=3.0	The Cython compiler for writing C extensions in the Python language.
pylint		python code static checker
ruff		An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
pre-commit		A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
setuptools		Most extensible Python build backend with support for C/C++ extension modules
wheel		Command line tool for manipulating wheel files

Optional modules for building the documentation:

Name	Version	Summary
sphinx		Python documentation generator
myst_parser		An extended [CommonMark](https://spec.commonmark.org/) compliant parser,
sphinx-copybutton		Add a copy button to each of your code cells.
sphinx_qt_documentation		Plugin for proper resolve intersphinx references for Qt elements
python-docs-theme		The Sphinx theme for the CPython docs and related projects

Optional modules for running test suite:

Name	Version	Summary
pytest		pytest: simple powerful testing with Python
pytest-xvfb		A pytest plugin to run Xvfb (or Xephyr/Xvnc) for tests.

The easiest way to install plotpy is using pip:

pip install plotpy

To install from source, clone the repository or download the source package from PyPI.

Then run the following command (using build):

python -m build