1.3 Installing from the sources

The source code is distributed with the official release at the same address http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41036.

Alternatively you can get it from its most current CVS version; see http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=41036. People unfamiliar with CVS or whose CVS access is firewalled can use cvsgrabber (http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net) to download the current source via HTTP.

To install from the source, run the top-level installation script setup.py:

python setup.py install

As usual, other commands are available, e.g.

python setup.py build_ext -i

will compile the C source and put the result directly into the psyco/ subdirectory (no administrator priviledge is required). After this step, the psyco/ directory is a complete package (exactly as found in the binary distributions) that you can use directly or copy around.