7.1.2. Python Setup

While eCAL is written in C++, it also offers a great Python integration. In this chapter we show how to setup Python for eCAL.

First, make sure that you have a Python installation on your system. We’d recommend making use of Python virtual environments to then install the eCAL Python integration.

• Install Python 3 on your system.

  • Windows:

    Download and install Python 3 64-bit (https://www.python.org/downloads/)

  • Ubuntu:

    sudo apt install python3 python3-pip
    

• Install the eCAL Python integration.

  Choose the appropiate version from the download_archive and download the .whl file. Open a command prompt in your download directory and install the Python wheel with:

  pip install eclipse_ecal-<version>-<python-version>-<architecture>.whl
  

  architecture is one of the following: win_amd64, manylinux_2_17_x86_64 and manylinux_2_17_aarch64. We currently upload wheels for Python 3.8 - 3.13.

We will soon upload eCAL packages to PyPi for better integration with pip.