Installing CPIP

Requirements

For cpip will need to have installed (with links):

• Python

Thats it!

CPIP has been tested with Python 2.7 and 3.3. CPIP used to run just fine on Windows but I haven’t had a recent opportunity (or reason) to test CPIP on a Windows box.

Download

cpip’s project page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpip/ [1]. From there you can either download an archive from the files section or pull the latest source from the repository.

In any case you will unzip or clone/pull to a directory of your choice on your machine referred to hereon as <cpip>.

From a Release

Releases are made irregularly and they are on the downloads page. Select the release that you want and unpack the file to your directory <cpip>

From the Hg Repo

The Mercurial repository has the most up-to-date code, get it with:

$ mkdir <cpip>
$ cd <cpip>
$ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/cpip/code .

Installing and Testing

Follow this to test that your installation of CPIP works.

Installing

Setting the Environment

Put <cpip> on your $PYTHONPATH

Testing

To make sure that cpip can be imported from your $PYTHONPATH do this:

$ python3
Python 3.2 (r32:88452, Feb 20 2011, 11:12:31)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import cpip
>>> dir(cpip)
['CPIP_VERSION', 'ExceptionCpip', 'RELEASE_NOTES', '__all__', '__author__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__date__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__rights__', '__version__']
>>> cpip.CPIP_VERSION
(0, 9, 1)
>>>

Unit Testing

To run all the unit tests in the core:

$ cd <cpip>
$ python3 core/test/UnitTest.py

Testing the Demo Code

See the PpLexer Tutorial for an example of running a CPIP PpLexer on the demonstration code. This gives the core CPIP software a good workout.

Footnotes

[1]	Our home page that has, among other things, this very fine documentation is at http://cpip.sourceforge.net