Python bindings for Blitz++ Arrays

This package contains a set of Pythonic bindings to the popular Blitz/C++ library. It also provides a C/C++ API that allows your Python extensions to leverage from the interfaces provided by this package. For more information, consult the package documentation.

Installation

Install it through normal means, via PyPI or use zc.buildout to bootstrap the package and run test units.

Documentation

You can generate the documentation for this package, after installation, using Sphinx:

$ sphinx-build -b html doc sphinx

This shall place in the directory sphinx, the current version for the documentation of the package.

Testing

You can run a set of tests using the nose test runner:

$ nosetests -sv blitz

You can run our documentation tests using sphinx itself:

$ sphinx-build -b doctest doc sphinx

You can test overall test coverage with:

$ nosetests --with-coverage --cover-package=blitz

The coverage egg must be installed for this to work properly.

Development

To develop this package, install using zc.buildout, using the buildout configuration found on the root of the package:

$ python bootstrap.py ... $ ./bin/buildout

Tweak the options in buildout.cfg to disable/enable verbosity and debug builds.