Paystack Python Library

Installation

You don't need this source code unless you want to modify the package. If you just want to use the Paystack Python library, you should run:

pip install --upgrade paystack-python

See http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html for instructions on installing pip. If you're not using virtualenv, you may have to prefix those commands with sudo. You can learn more about virtualenv at http://www.virtualenv.org/

To install from source, run:

python setup.py install

Documentation

Please see https://github.com/dayoreke/paystack-python/tree/master/docs for this Paystack Python Library documentation. 
Please see https://developers.paystack.co/ for Paystack's most up-to-date documentation.

Testing

We commit to being compatible with Python 2.6+, Python 3.1+ and PyPy. We need to test against all of these environments to ensure compatibility. Travis CI will automatically run our tests on push. For local testing, we use tox to handle testing across environments.

Setting up tox

In theory, you should be able to pip install tox and then simply run tox from the project root. In reality, Tox can take a bit of finagling to get working.

You'll need an interpreter installed for each of the versions of python we test (see the envlist in tox.ini). You can find these releases on the Python site and at PyPy. If you're using OS X, it may be easier to get PyPy from Homebrew with brew install pypy.

You may choose not to go through the hassle of installing interpreters for every Python version we support. It's useful to test at least one Python 2.x and one Python 3.x but can generally rely on Travis to find edge cases with other interpreters. You can test a specific interpreter such as Python 2.7 with tox -e py27.

The system Python on OS X has been known to cause issues. You'll probably want to brew install python or equivalent. If tox complains about pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound then some of your Python libraries are probably still linked to the system python installation. To fix this for virtualenv you should sudo pip uninstall virtualenv; pip install virtualenv.