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