Download And Installation

LEPL is only available for Python 3 and 2.6. See Testing for more information.

Warning

When a new version of LEPL is close to being released there may be both a stable and a beta version available. The main documentation (at www.acooke.org) describes the latest (possibly beta) version, but source and documentation for either version can be downloaded.

For more details, please read the information below.

Installation

There are several ways to install LEPL — they are described below, simplest first. If you want a local copy of the manual you should also read the Documentation section.

Install With Setuptools / easy_install (Python 2.6)

This installs the latest stable version and currently only works for Python 2.6.

If you have setuptools installed you should be able to install LEPL using:

easy_install lepl

That’s it. There is no need to download anything beforehand; easy_install will do all the work.

Install With Distutils / setup.py (Python 3 and 2.6)

Download and unpack a source package then run:

python setup.py install

For example, on Gnu/Linux (in the instructions below, “LEPL-xxx” would be “LEPL-3.3.3” for the current release):

wget http://lepl.googlecode.com/files/LEPL-xxx.tar.gz
tar xvfz LEPL-xxx.tar.gz
cd LEPL-xxx
python setup.py install

Manual Install (experts only)

Download and unpack a source package then add to your PYTHONPATH or site-packages.

Download

You can download the source and documentation packages (for both stable and beta releases) from the Support Site.

Stable source packages are also available from the Python Package Index.

Testing

Once installed you can test LEPL by running the self-test:

>>> from lepl._test import all
>>> all()

Warning

Some test failures are expected with certain Python versions. The test described above will check the failures against the version used and, if all is as expected, display “Looks OK to me!”.

Also, with easy_install and Python 2.6, a syntax error is printed during install (from a Python 3 print statement in lepl._example.separators). You can safely ignore this.

Supported Versions

The code is targetted at Python 3, but various small modifications are added to keep most packages (currently everything except binary parsing) working with Python 2.6.

It is regularly tested on 2.6 and 3.1.

It does not work with Python 2.5. Incompatibilities include:

• with contexts
• setter decorators
• {} formatting
• ABC metaclasses
• changed heapq API
• except syntax