Installation and Getting Started

Pythons: Python 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

Platforms: Linux/Unix (inluding macOS)

PyPI package name: cortix

Dependencies:

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Install cortix

Stable Release (via PyPi)

  1. Run the following command in your command line:

    pip install --user cortix

Development Version (from source)

  1. Clone the repository:

    $ git clone https://github.com/dpploy/cortix.git

  2. Install the required dependencies listed in requirements.txt:

    $ pip install --user -r cortix/requirements.txt

  3. Add cortix’s parent path to the PYTHONPATH environment variable:

    $ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/dir/containing/cortix

Note

The path above is NOT the path to cortix itself, but rather the path to cortix’s parent directory. That is, if cortix exists in /some/path/cortix, be sure to add /some/path to your PYTHONPATH. You may want to add this line to your .bashrc in order for it to be persistent

Testing your install

To test your Cortix install, run the droplet example from the python shell:

>> from cortix.examples.console_run import droplet_run as droplet

>> droplet.run()