Quick2Wire Python API
A Python library for controlling the hardware attached to the Raspberry Pi's header pins, without running as the root user.
Dependencies
The library depends on Python 3. To install Python 3 run this command from an administrator account, such as pi
:
sudo apt-get install python3
You'll also find the python tools virtualenv and pip useful:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
The GPIO API depends on Quick2Wire GPIO Admin. To install Quick2Wire GPIO Admin, follow the instructions at http://github.com/quick2wire/quick2wire-gpio-admin
The I2C API depends on I2C support in the kernel. We've been using Chris Boot's kernel builds from http://www.bootc.net/projects/raspberry-pi-kernel/
Installation
The library is currently under active development, so we do not
recommend installing it into the system-wide Python libraries.
Instead, you can either use it without installation or
install it into an isolated Python development environment created with virtualenv
.
To use the library without installation, add the full path of the
src
subdirectory of the source tree to the PYTHONPATH
environment
variable. For example:
export QUICK2WIRE_API_HOME=[the directory cloned from Git or unpacked from the source archive]
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$QUICK2WIRE_API_HOME/src
If you're using virtualenv, make your virtualenv active, and then run:
python3 setup.py install