Installation

calistar is available on PyPI and Github.

Installation from PyPI

The calistar tool can be installed with the pip package manager:

$ pip install calistar

Or, to update calistar to the most recent version:

$ pip install --upgrade calistar

Installation from Github

Using pip

The repository on Github contains the latest implementations and can also be installed with pip:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/tomasstolker/calistar.git

Cloning the repository

In case you want to look into the code, it is best to clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/tomasstolker/calistar.git

Next, the package is installed by running pip in the local repository folder:

$ pip install -e .

New commits can be pulled from Github once a local copy of the repository exists:

$ git pull origin main

Do you want to make changes to the code? Please fork the calistar repository on the Github page and clone your own fork instead of the main repository. Contributions and pull requests are welcome (see About section).

Testing calistar

The installation can now be tested, for example by starting Python in interactive mode and importing the package:

>>> import calistar