Installation

This Python library only requires Python 3.10+ to work. Earlier Python versions are not supported.

Basic installation

This library is publicly available in PyPI so it can be easily installed with your favourite Python dependency and packaging management tool, e.g.

pip install ensembl-py

Development-oriented installation

If you want to install this library in editable mode, we suggest you to do so via Python’s virtual environment module (venv):

python -m venv <VIRTUAL_ENVIRONMENT_NAME>
source <VIRTUAL_ENVIRONMENT_NAME>/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-py.git
cd ensembl-py
pip install -e .[cicd]