Installing PyNWB

PyNWB has the following minimum requirements, which must be installed before you can get started using PyNWB.

Note

If you are a developer then please see the Installing PyNWB for Developers installation instructions instead.

Install release from PyPI

The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.

To install or update PyNWB distribution from PyPI simply run:

$ pip install -U pynwb

This will automatically install the following required dependencies:

hdmf

h5py

numpy

pandas

python-dateutil

Conda-forge is a community led collection of recipes, build infrastructure and distributions for the conda package manager.

To install or update PyNWB distribution from conda-forge using conda simply run:

$ conda install -c conda-forge pynwb

This is useful to try out the latest features and also set up continuous integration of your own project against the latest version of PyNWB.

$ pip install -U pynwb --find-links https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb/releases/tag/latest  --no-index