Installation

Note

This assumes that you’re already familiar with virtual environments and pip.

Virtual Environment Setup

Create a Python 3 virtual environment in the current location in subfolder called venv, then set it as the Python source.

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

You can deactivate the virtual environment with deactivate.

Quick Install

This package is available through pip, so it’s easy to install. With your virual environment active, run:

$ pip install gridsim

Within your own code, you can now import the Gridsim library components, such as:

import gridsim as gs

# Create an empty World of 100 x 100 grid cells
my_world = gs.World(100, 100)

Potential Issues

If you get an error when trying to install PyGame (possibly due to Python 3.8) that says sdl-config: not found, you might need to install system dependencies because PyGame uses an older version (1.2) of SDL. For Ubuntu-like systems, you can use the following:

$ sudo apt install libsdl-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libportmidi-dev