Developers

The installation and initialisation steps are slightly different if you want to work on Pytac. N.B. This guide uses pipenv but a virtualenv will also work.

Installation

This is only required on your first use.

• Ensure you have the following requirements: Pip, Pipenv, and a local copy of Pytac.

• Install dev-packages and Cothread for EPICS support:

  $ pipenv install --dev
  $ pip install cothread
  $ # Cothread is required for EPICS functionality, but Pytac can run without it.
  

Initialisation

This is required each time you want to start up Pytac.

• Navigate to your pytac directory and activate a Pipenv shell, and start Python:

  $ cd <directory-path>
  $ pipenv shell
  $ python
  Python 2.7.3 (default, Nov  9 2013, 21:59:00)
  [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>>
  

• Import Pytac and initialise the lattice from the VMX directory:

  >>> import pytac.load_csv
  >>> lattice = pytac.load_csv.load('VMX')
  

The lattice object is used for interacting with elements of the accelerator.