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-title: "Python SDK"
-
+title: "Installation"
...
+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
-h1. Python SDK
-
-The Python SDK provides a generic set of wrappers so you can make API calls easily. It performs some validation before connecting to the API server: for example, it refuses to do an API call if a required parameter is missing.
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
-The library also includes some conveniences for use in Crunch scripts; see "Crunch utility libraries":crunch-utility-libraries.html for details.
+The Python SDK provides access from Python to the Arvados API and Keep, along with a number of command line tools for using and administering Arvados and Keep.
-h3. Installation
+h2. Installation
If you are logged in to an Arvados VM, the Python SDK should be installed.
-To use the Python SDK elsewhere, build and install the package using the arvados source tree.
+To use the Python SDK elsewhere, you can install from PyPI or a distribution package.
-<notextile>
-<pre>
-$ <code class="userinput">git clone https://github.com/curoverse/arvados.git</code>
-$ <code class="userinput">cd arvados/sdk/python</code>
-$ <code class="userinput">sudo python setup.py install</code>
-</pre>
-</notextile>
+The Python SDK supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+
-If the SDK is installed and your @ARVADOS_API_HOST@ and @ARVADOS_API_TOKEN@ environment variables are set up correctly (see "api-tokens":{{site.basedoc}}/user/reference/api-tokens.html for details), @import arvados@ should produce no errors:
+h2. Option 1: Install from a distribution package
-<notextile>
-<pre>$ <code class="userinput">python</code>
-Python 2.7.4 (default, Sep 26 2013, 03:20:26)
-[GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
-Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
->>> <code class="userinput">import arvados</code>
->>> <code class="userinput">arvados.api('v1')</code>
-<apiclient.discovery.Resource object at 0x233bb50>
+This installation method is recommended to make the CLI tools available system-wide. It can coexist with the installation method described in option 2, below.
+
+First, configure the "Arvados package repositories":../../install/packages.html
+
+{% assign arvados_component = 'python-arvados-python-client' %}
+
+{% include 'install_packages' %}
+
+h2. Option 2: Install with pip
+
+This installation method is recommended to use the SDK in your own Python programs. If installed into a @virtualenv@, it can coexist with the system-wide installation method from a distribution package.
+
+Run @pip install arvados-python-client@ in an appropriate installation environment, such as a @virtualenv@.
+
+Note:
+
+The SDK uses @pycurl@ which depends on the @libcurl@ C library. To build the module you may have to first install additional packages. On Debian 9 this is:
+
+<pre>
+$ apt-get install git build-essential python-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl1.0-dev
</pre>
-</notextile>
-h3. Examples
+For Python 3 this is
-Get the User object for the current user:
+<pre>
+$ apt-get install git build-essential python3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl1.0-dev
+</pre>
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">current_user = arvados.api('v1').users().current().execute()
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
+If your version of @pip@ is 1.4 or newer, the @pip install@ command might give an error: "Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement arvados-python-client". If this happens, try @pip install --pre arvados-python-client@.
-Get the UUID of an object that was retrieved using the SDK:
+h2. Test installation
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">my_uuid = current_user['uuid']
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
+If the SDK is installed and your @ARVADOS_API_HOST@ and @ARVADOS_API_TOKEN@ environment variables are set up correctly (see "api-tokens":{{site.baseurl}}/user/reference/api-tokens.html for details), @import arvados@ should produce no errors.
-Retrieve an object by ID:
+If you installed with pip (option 1, above):
<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">some_user = arvados.api('v1').users().get(uuid=my_uuid).execute()
-</code></pre>
+<pre>~$ <code class="userinput">python</code>
+Python 2.7.4 (default, Sep 26 2013, 03:20:26)
+[GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
+Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
+>>> <code class="userinput">import arvados</code>
+>>> <code class="userinput">arvados.api('v1')</code>
+<apiclient.discovery.Resource object at 0x233bb50>
+</pre>
</notextile>
-Create an object:
+If you installed from a distribution package (option 2): the package includes a virtualenv, which means the correct Python environment needs to be loaded before the Arvados SDK can be imported. This can be done by activating the virtualenv first:
<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">test_link = arvados.api('v1').links().create(
- body={'link_class':'test','name':'test'}).execute()
-</code></pre>
+<pre>~$ <code class="userinput">source /usr/share/python2.7/dist/python-arvados-python-client/bin/activate</code>
+(python-arvados-python-client) ~$ <code class="userinput">python</code>
+Python 2.7.4 (default, Sep 26 2013, 03:20:26)
+[GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
+Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
+>>> <code class="userinput">import arvados</code>
+>>> <code class="userinput">arvados.api('v1')</code>
+<apiclient.discovery.Resource object at 0x233bb50>
+</pre>
</notextile>
-Update an object:
+Or alternatively, by using the Python executable from the virtualenv directly:
<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">arvados.api('v1').links().update(
- uuid=test_link['uuid'],
- body={'properties':{'foo':'bar'}}).execute()
-</code></pre>
+<pre>~$ <code class="userinput">/usr/share/python2.7/dist/python-arvados-python-client/bin/python</code>
+Python 2.7.4 (default, Sep 26 2013, 03:20:26)
+[GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
+Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
+>>> <code class="userinput">import arvados</code>
+>>> <code class="userinput">arvados.api('v1')</code>
+<apiclient.discovery.Resource object at 0x233bb50>
+</pre>
</notextile>
-Get a list of objects:
+h2. Usage
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">repos = arvados.api('v1').repositories().list().execute()
-len(repos['items'])</code>
-2
-<code class="userinput">repos['items'][0]['uuid']</code>
-u'qr1hi-s0uqq-kg8cawglrf74bmw'
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
+Check out the "examples":example.html and "cookbook":cookbook.html
h3. Notes
</notextile>
The SDK retrieves the list of API methods from the server at run time. Therefore, the set of available methods is determined by the server version rather than the SDK version.
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