Installation

Clifford can be installed via the standard mechanisms for Python packages, and is available through both PyPI and Anaconda.

conda

If you are using the Anaconda python distribution, then you should install using the conda command.

Once you have anaconda installed you can install clifford from the conda-forge channel with the command:

conda install -c conda-forge clifford

PyPI

If you are not using Anaconda, you can install clifford from PyPI using the pip command that comes with Python:

pip3 install clifford

Note

The 1.3 release and older are not compatible with numba 0.50.0, and emit a large number of warnings on 0.49.0. To avoid these warnings, install with:

pip3 install clifford "numba~=0.48.0" "sparse~=0.9.0"

If you want the development version of clifford you can pip install from the latest master with:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/pygae/clifford.git@master

If you want to modify clifford itself, then you should use an editable (-e) installation:

git clone https://github.com/pygae/clifford.git
pip3 install -e ./clifford

If you are not running as sudo, and your python installation is system-wide, you will need to pass --user to the invocations above.