README.txt

A scripting program for eDraw format. License is LGPLv3+. Requires lxml and svgwrite.

INSTALLATION

pyebl requires python 3+. Skip below for my recommendation of a python3+ environment if you don't have one.

Install pyebl's dependencies:

$ pip install svgwrite
$ pip install lxml

svgwrite is used for generating svg output, and lxml is used for high performance XML parsing/serialization.

Now install pyebl:

$ pip install pyebl

The best pyebl tutorial is installed in the docs/examples directory (see docs/examples/output for reference). Syntax is designed to be similar to matplotlib's pyplot.

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I strongly recommend using Anaconda from Continuum:

http://continuum.io/downloads

By default, Anaconda comes with python 2.7. You will need to create a python 3 environment using the conda command ( see http://continuum.io/blog/anaconda-python-3 ):

$ conda create -py3k python=3 anaconda

Running this command will install a python 3 environment "py3k".

Don't forget that when you want to work with eDraw, you need to activate the py3k environment:

$ activate py3k

Contact me with problems: http://www.github.com/erje/pyebl