Installation

pyIECWind requires Python 3.10 or newer and depends only on NumPy.

Note

pyIECWind is not yet published on PyPI, so pip install pyiecwind is not available. Install from source, ideally inside a conda environment as shown below. A PyPI release and a conda-forge package are planned (see Building and packaging).

Recommended: Miniconda (step by step)

If you are coming from an engineering background and do not already have a Python workflow, this is the most reliable way to get started. It installs an isolated environment so pyIECWind cannot interfere with any other Python on your machine.

1. Install Miniconda. Download and run the installer for your operating system from https://www.anaconda.com/docs/getting-started/miniconda/install. Miniconda is a small distribution that provides conda (an environment and package manager) and Python. On Windows, accept the defaults and then open the Anaconda Prompt; on macOS/Linux, open a terminal.

2. Get the code. Clone the repository (or download the ZIP from GitHub and extract it), then change into the folder:

git clone https://github.com/SMI-Lab-Inha/pyIECWind.git
cd pyIECWind

3. Create the environment. This reads environment.yml and builds an isolated environment named pyiecwind with the correct Python, NumPy, and pyIECWind itself:

conda env create -f environment.yml

4. Activate it. Do this in every new terminal session before using the tool:

conda activate pyiecwind

5. Check it works:

pyiecwind --help

You are ready – continue with the Quickstart.

Alternative installs

If you already manage your own Python environments:

# into an existing conda environment
conda create -n pyiecwind python=3.11 numpy pip -y
conda activate pyiecwind
python -m pip install -e .

# or a plain pip install from a source checkout
python -m pip install -e .

Optional dependency groups

Two extras are available for contributors:

dev: Test and quality tooling: pytest, pytest-cov, hypothesis, ruff, mypy, build, twine, and pip-audit.
docs: Documentation tooling: sphinx, the sphinx-rtd-theme theme, and myst-parser.

python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pip install -e ".[docs]"

Verifying the installation

pyiecwind --help
python -c "import pyiecwind; print(pyiecwind.__version__)"

The version is single-sourced from the installed package metadata, so the import above and pip show pyiecwind always agree.