In order to use Cython, we need to install Cython. Enthought and Sage have Cython included. For more information, see http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php and http://sagemath.org/. We will not discuss here how to install these distributions. Obviously, we need a C compiler to compile the generated C code. On some operating systems, such as Linux, the compiler will already be present. In this recipe, we will assume that you already have the compiler installed.
Cython can be installed using any of the following methods:
- Installing from tarball (
.tararchive): Cython can be installed from tarball by performing the following steps:- Download a tarball from http://cython.org/#download.
- Unpack it.
- Browse to the directory using the
cdcommand. - Run the following command:
python setup.py install
- Installing with setup tools or pip
We can install Cython from the PyPI repository with
easy_install cythonorsudo pip install cython. - Installing with Windows installers
We can install Cython on Windows using the unofficial Windows installers from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#cython.