pyfrc install

Installing pyfrc will install all of the packages needed to help you write and test Python-based Robot code on your development computer. These tools include WPILib, pynetworktables, unit testing support, and the robot simulator.

pyfrc requires Python 3.5 or greater to be installed on your computer.

• Python for Windows

• Python for macOS

Install via pip on Windows

Note

pip typically requires internet access

The easiest installation is by using pip. pip is installed by default with Python 3.5. Run the following command from the command line:

py -3 -m pip install pyfrc

To upgrade, you can run this:

py -3 -m pip install --upgrade pyfrc

If you don’t have administrative rights on your computer, either use virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper-win, or or you can install to the user site-packages directory:

py -3 -m pip install --user pyfrc

Install via pip on macOS/Linux

Note

pip typically requires internet access

The easiest installation is by using pip. pip is installed by default with Python 3.5 (though on Linux it may not be installed). On a Linux or macOS system that has pip installed, just run the following command from the Terminal applciation (may require admin rights):

pip3 install pyfrc

To upgrade, you can run this:

pip3 install --upgrade pyfrc

If you don’t have administrative rights on your computer, either use virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper, or or you can install to the user site-packages directory:

pip3 install --user pyfrc

Manual install (without pip)

While this is possible to do, due to the large number of dependencies this is not recommended nor is it supported.

code coverage support

If you wish to run code coverage testing, then you must install the coverage package. It requires a compiler to install from source. However, if you are using a supported version of Python and a modern version of pip, it may install a binary wheel instead, which removes the need for a compiler.

Windows:   py -3 -m pip install coverage

Linux/macOS: pip3 install coverage

If you run into compile errors, then you will need to install a compiler on your system.

• On Windows you can download the Visual Studio compilers for Python (be sure to download the one for your version of Python).

• On macOS it requires XCode to be installed

• On Linux you will need to have python3-dev/python3-devel or a similar package installed