Python module for binary_c

Based on a original work by Jeff Andrews, updated and extended for Python3 by Robert Izzard

THIS CODE IS VERY EXPERIMENTAL AND PROBABLY WILL NOT WORK

r.izzard@surrey.ac.uk http://personal.ph.surrey.ac.uk/~ri0005/binary_c.html 09/06/2019

Requirements

• Python3
• binary_c version 2.1+
• requirements.txt (no?)

Environment variables

Before compilation you should set the following environment variables:

• required: BINARY_C should point to the root directory of your binary_c installation
• recommended: LD_LIBRARY_PATH should include $BINARY_C/src and whatever directories are required to run binary_c (e.g. locations of libgsl, libmemoize, librinterpolate, etc.)
• recommended: LIBRARY_PATH should include whatever directories are required to build binary_c (e.g. locations of libgsl, libmemoize, librinterpolate, etc.)

Build instructions

To build the module, make sure you have built binary_c (with make in the binary_c root directory), its shared library (with make libbinary_c.so in the binary_c root directory), and set environment variables as described above, then run the following code in t:

 make clean
 make

Then to test the Python module:

 python3 ./python_API_test.py

You will require whatever libraries with which binary_c was compiled, as well as the compiler with which Python was built (usually gcc, which is easily installed on most systems).

TODO

• ?Put the header and src files in a dedicated directory
• ?Have the compiled files be written into build
• Use sphinx for auto generation of docs
• Use queueing system/asynchronous task queue