This package provides utilities for specifying binary data algorithmically, and executing the specifications to produce the data.

Requirements

In addition to a standard Python installation, this package depends on:

• SpiNNMachine

These requirements can be install using pip:

pip install SpiNNMachine

User Installation

If you want to install for all users, run:

sudo pip install DataSpecification

If you want to install only for yourself, run:

pip install DataSpecification --user

To install in a virtualenv, with the virtualenv enabled, run:

pip install DataSpecification

Developer Installation

If you want to be able to edit the source code, but still have it referenced from other Python modules, you can set the install to be a developer install. In this case, download the source code, and extract it locally, or else clone the git repository:

git clone http://github.com/SpiNNakerManchester/DataSpecification.git

To install as a development version which all users will then be able to use, run the following where the code has been extracted:

sudo pip install -e .

To install as a development version for only yourself, run:

pip install -e . --user

To install as a development version in a virtualenv, with the virutalenv enabled, run:

pip install -e .

Test Installation

To be able to run the unitests add [Test] to the pip installs above

pip install -e .[Test]

Documentation

DataSpecification python documentation

Combined python documentation