Installation

Installation from conda-forge

pyfive is available on conda-forge and can be installed with either conda or mamba (mamba is now the defaut solver for conda so might as well just use conda):

conda install -c conda-forge pyfive

Installation from PyPI

pyfive can be installed from PyPI:

pip install pyfive

Install from source: conda-mamba environment

Use a Miniconda/Miniforge3 installer to create an environment using our conda environment.yml file, download the latest Miniconda3 installer from the Miniconda project, install it, then create and activate the pyfive environment:

wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
(base) conda env create -n pyfive -f environment.yml
(base) conda activate pyfive

Note

Our dependencies are all from conda-forge, ensuring a smooth and reliable installation process.

Installing Pyfive from source

The installation then can proceed: installing with pip and installing all (i.e. installing the development and test install):

pip install -e .

After installing, you can run tests via pytest -n 2.

Supported Python versions

We adhere to Scientific Python SPEC-0 and support the following Python versions:

3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14

Note

pyfive is fully compatible with numpy >= 2.0.0.