Installation¶

This part of the documentation covers the installation of SQLAlchemy-Utils.

Supported platforms¶

SQLAlchemy-Utils has been tested against the following Python platforms.

cPython 2.6 (unsupported since 0.32)
cPython 2.7
cPython 3.3
cPython 3.4
cPython 3.5
cPython 3.6

Installing an official release¶

You can install the most recent official SQLAlchemy-Utils version using pip:

pip install sqlalchemy-utils    # Use `pip3` instead of `pip` for Python 3.x

Installing the development version¶

To install the latest version of SQLAlchemy-Utils, you need first obtain a copy of the source. You can do that by cloning the git repository:

git clone git://github.com/kvesteri/sqlalchemy-utils.git

Then you can install the source distribution using pip:

cd sqlalchemy-utils
pip install -e .    # Use `pip3` instead of `pip` for Python 3.x

Checking the installation¶

To check that SQLAlchemy-Utils has been properly installed, type python from your shell. Then at the Python prompt, try to import SQLAlchemy-Utils, and check the installed version:

>>> import sqlalchemy_utils
>>> sqlalchemy_utils.__version__
0.36.8